Turritella temblorensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurritellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritella
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritella
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 4.7 Mya.
23 occurrences of Turritella temblorensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
23 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
6 formations
- Vaqueros Formation7
- Rincon Formation6
- Topanga Canyon Formation · Topanga Group5
- Ysidro Formation1
- Monterey Formation1
- Topanga Formation1
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The named rock units Turritella temblorensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Turritella temblorensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Turritella temblorensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
218 taxa- Turritella ocoyana14 sites
- Califrapana vaquerosensis9 sites
- Lyropecten miguelensis9 sites
- Turritella inezana8 sites
- Clementia conradiana7 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni7 sites
- Calyptraea costellata6 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus6 sites
- Balanus5 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni5 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli5 sites
- Scaphander jugularis5 sites
- Bittium topangensis4 sites
- Calyptraea filosa4 sites
- Dosinia4 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami4 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata4 sites
- Panopea generosa4 sites
- Turritella inezana bicarina4 sites
- Vaquerosella coreyi4 sites
- Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana3 sites
- Cerithium3 sites
- Chione3 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Turritella temblorensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
8 references- Geology of the Northern Channel Islands7
- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology5
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California5
- Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean2
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Miocene Saddleback Valley Limestone, Orange County, Southern California1
- Fossil Turritellas from the Pacific Coast region of North America1
- Preliminary report on the paleontology of the Channel Islands, California1
- Notes on the Vaqueros and Temblor formations of the California Miocene with descriptions of new species1
Each of the 23 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Turritella temblorensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Turritella temblorensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTurritella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wiedey 1928