Turritella vanvlecki
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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 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
16 occurrences of Turritella vanvlecki on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
16 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Turritella vanvlecki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turritella vanvlecki and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Turritella vanvlecki and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
191 taxa- Calyptraea filosa10 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana9 sites
- Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii8 sites
- Turritella cooperi8 sites
- Calicantharus kettlemanensis7 sites
- Crepidula onyx7 sites
- Leporimetis obesa7 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) perrini7 sites
- Tresus nuttallii6 sites
- Anadara trilineata5 sites
- Calicantharus humerosus5 sites
- Calliostoma ligatum5 sites
- Chione (Anomalocardia) fernandoensis5 sites
- Crucibulum5 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis5 sites
- Patinopecten lohri5 sites
- Balanus gregarius4 sites
- Caesia moraniana4 sites
- Calicantharus fortis4 sites
- Calliostoma coalingensis4 sites
- Callithaca tenerrima4 sites
- Cancellaria hemphilli4 sites
- Clavus (Clathrodrillia) coalingensis4 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Turritella vanvlecki, 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
4 references- Pancho Rico Formation, Salinas Valley7
- Geology of southeastern Ventura basin, Los Angeles County, California5
- The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California3
- Fossil Turritellas from the Pacific Coast region of North America1
Each of the 16 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 vanvlecki
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turritella vanvlecki 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.
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What may have been alongside itTurritella through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arnold 1909