Turritella vaderensis
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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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Turritella vaderensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
5 occurrences- Eocene100%
These 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Turritella vaderensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella vaderensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Turritella vaderensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Acila (Truncacila) decisa2 sites
- Nuculana cowlitzensis2 sites
- Turritella uvasana2 sites
- Venericardia (Pacificor) clarki2 sites
- Acila1 site
- Acutostrea idriaensis1 site
- Acutostrea idriaensis fettkei1 site
- Amphissa1 site
- Ancillaria bretzi1 site
- Balanophyllia cowlitzensis1 site
- Barbatia cowlitzensis1 site
- Barbatia landesi1 site
- Bonellitia (Admetula) paucivaricata1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis1 site
- Bursa washingtoniana1 site
- Cadulus (Platyschides) gabbi1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Cantharus perrini1 site
- Caryocorbula hornii1 site
- Cerithiopsis washingtoniana1 site
- Cominella1 site
- Cominella eocenica1 site
- Conus vaderensis1 site
- Corbicula olequahensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Turritella vaderensis, 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
3 references- Geology and coal resources of the Cumberland. Hobart, and Maple Valley Quadrangles, King County, Washington2
- Fauna from the Eocene of Washington2
- Fossil Turritellas from the Pacific Coast region of North America1
Each of the 5 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 vaderensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Turritella vaderensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTurritella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Merriam 1941