Turritella vistana

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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 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Turritella vistana 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Turritella vistana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Turritella vistana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Argopecten levicostatus2 sites
- Chione cancellata2 sites
- Plicatula densata2 sites
- Turritella berjadinensis colinensis2 sites
- Turritella gatunensis willstoni2 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) berjadinensis1 site
- Euvola urumaconis1 site
- Lindapecten buchivacoanus1 site
- Lirophora (Lirophora) falconensis1 site
- Lirophora (Panchione) buenavistana1 site
- Macrocallista maculata1 site
- Ostrea democraciana cujiensis1 site
- Pecten circularis venezuelanus1 site
- Polinices subclausa lavelana1 site
- Tucetona pectinata canalis1 site
- Turritella altilira urumacoensis1 site
- Turritella berjadinensis warfieldi1 site
- Turritella gatunensis taratarana1 site
- Venericardia zuliana maracaibensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Turritella vistana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Turritella vistana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turritella vistana 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hodson 1927