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Turricula rostrata

Barton-on-Sea, New Milton, New Forest, Hampshire, England, UK

Turricula rostrata

Barton-on-Sea, New Milton, New Forest, Hampshire, England, UK

Turricula rostrata

Barton-on-Sea, New Milton, New Forest, Hampshire, England, UK

Description

Turricula, turret in Latin, may refer to:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turricula, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	6755528	https://www.gbif.org/species/6755528
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11810	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11810

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Clavatulidae : Turricula

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Clavatulidae : Turricula

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Turridae	Swainson 1840
family	Clavatulidae
genus	Turricula	Schumacher

Scientific Name

Turricula Schumacher

Name Published In

Schumacher C.F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Turricula	genus	belongs to Gastropoda	stated without evidence	Mansfield, 1925
Turricula	genus	belongs to Volutidae	stated without evidence	Bohm, 1926
Turricula	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated without evidence	Olsson, 1931
Turricula	subgenus	belongs to Mitra	stated without evidence	Abrard, 1946
Turricula	genus	belongs to Turriculinae	stated with evidence	MacNeil, 1960
Turricula	genus	belongs to Turriculinae	stated without evidence	Addicott, 1970
Turricula	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated without evidence	Moore, 1984
Turricula	genus	belongs to Turriculinae	implied	Wilson, 1994
Turricula	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Turricula	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated with evidence	Baluk, 2003
Turricula	genus	belongs to Clavatulidae	stated with evidence	Harzhauser et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (7.3%)

First Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Turridae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Turridae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turricula

External Images

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Turricula (Crenaturricula) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		25	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	37.2 Ma Eocene
Turricula (Leptosurcula) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		5	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	41.3 Ma Eocene
Clavatula labiata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Drillia cooperi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotoma ingens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Pleurotoma karenaica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotoma wateleti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Surcula africana species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Surcula andersoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Surcula birmanica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Surcula bouvieri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Surcula clarki ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Surcula culleni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Surcula fairbanksi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Surcula gesteri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Surcula holwayi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Surcula iravadica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Surcula karenaica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Surcula labiata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Surcula marylandica species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Surcula mayi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	55.8 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Surcula merriami ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Surcula occidentalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Surcula piura species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Surcula promensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Surcula riomaonis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Surcula sethurame species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Surcula sullana species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Surcula thangaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Surcula thompsoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Surcula wateleti ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Turricula (Surcula) steinbacherae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Turricula aequa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula aethiopica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula amplisulcus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula bacata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula beanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Turricula bicuminata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula bremertonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Turricula bucciniformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula bulwaldana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Turricula byorituensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula byramensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula calafia ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Turricula catena species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula ceylonica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula cheribonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula cincta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula cooperi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		17	56.0 Ma Paleocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Turricula dentata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula emerita ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Turricula eolavinia species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Turricula esdailei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Turricula excelsa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Turricula fatuensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula faurei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula flammea species	listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Turricula gemmulaeformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula granobalteus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula hanguensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Turricula haydeni species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Turricula interrupta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula janesburgensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula javana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula kayalensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Turricula keaseyensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	41.3 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Turricula longiforma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula martini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula minahassae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula navarchus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula nelliae species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Turricula nigeriensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula nigricans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula nikiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula obliquinodosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula ochsneri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Turricula orthocolpa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula piercei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Turricula praepromensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Turricula profundorum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula progoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula promensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		9	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Turricula pseudoscala species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula rossellae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Turricula rostrata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula ruellensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula sanctistephani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula sethuramae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Turricula spuria ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Turricula steinbacherae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula sulcicancellata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula sumatrana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula taurina ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Turricula terebralis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula terryi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Turricula teschi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula texana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula textilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula thangaensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Turricula thurstoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula tornata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Turricula transversaria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula turriplana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turricula waringi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Turricula washingtoniana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Sucula Dickerson, 1915	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Clavatulidae : *Sucula*
Surculla Strausz, 1928	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Clavatulidae : *Surculla*
Surcula H.Adams & A.Adams, 1853	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Clavatulidae : *Surcula*
Surgula Weinkauff, 1876	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Clavatulidae : *Surgula*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1817	Turricula Schumacher
1853	Surcula Adams and Adams
1866	Pleurotoma (Surcula) Gabb p. 5
1873	Turris (Surcula) Gabb p. 207
1906	Pleurotoma (Surcula) Oppenheim p. 332 figs. pl. 24, figs. 26 a, b
1908	Turris (Surcula) Dall
1919	Turricula (Surcula) Dall p. 4
1921	Surcula Vredenburg p. 86
1922	Surcula Woods p. 106
1925	Turricula Mansfield p. 13
1926	Turricula Bohm p. 71
1931	Surcula Olsson p. 118
1931	Turricula Olsson p. 118
1935	Clavatula (Surcula) Oostingh p. 108
1938	Turricula Turner p. 70
1939	Turricula Mukerjee p. 77

Year	Name and Author
1944	Turricula Durham p. 187
1946	Mitra (Turricula) Abrard p. 100
1960	Turricula MacNeil p. 108
1967	Surcula Abbass p. 120
1970	Turricula Addicott p. 129
1976	Turricula Hickman p. 33
1980	Turricula Hickman p. 80
1984	Turricula Moore p. 24
1986	Turricula (Surcula) Covacevich and Frassinetti p. 39
1994	Turricula Wilson p. 189
1999	Turricula Squires p. 21
2002	Surcula Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Turricula Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Turricula Baluk p. 30
2009	Turricula Harzhauser et al. p. 355

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Gabb W. M. , Palaeontology of California, Volume II, Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils, 1-299

Vredenburg E. (1921) Comparative diagnoses of Pleurotomidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma, Records of the Geological Survey of India 53, 83-129

Woods H. (1922) Section A. Mollusca from the Eocene and Miocene deposits of Peru. , Geology of the Tertiary and Quaternary Periods in the Northwest Part of Peru, 51-113

Mansfield W. C. (1925) Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66 22, 9116-9125

Bohm J. (1926) Über Tertiäre versteinerungen von den Bogenfelser diamantfeldern, Beiträge zur geologischen Erforschung der deutschen Schutzgebiete 2, 55-87

Olsson A. A. (1931) Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene, Bulletins of American Paleontology 17 63

Oostingh C. H. (1935) Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java), Dienst van den Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië Wetenschappelijke Mededeelingen 26, 1-247

Turner F. E. (1938) Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon, Geological Society of America Special Paper 10, 1-130

Mukerjee P. N. (1939) Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam, Palaeontologia Indica 28 1, 1-101

Durham J. W. (1944) Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27, 101 -212

MacNeil F. S. (1960) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339, 1-148

Abbass H. L. (1967) A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods, United Arab Republic, Geological Survey-Geological Museum, Palaeontological Series, Monograph 4, 1-154

Addicott W.O. (1970) Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642, 1-172

Hickman C. J. (1976) Bathyal gastropods of the family Turridae in the Early Oligocene Keasey Formation in Oregon, with a review of some deep-water genera in the Paleocene of the Eastern Pacific, Bulletins of American Paleontology 70 292, 1-119

Hickman C. S. (1980) Paleogene Marine Gastropods of the Keasey Formation in Oregon, Bulletins of American Paleontology 78 310, 1-112

Moore E. J. (1984) Molluscan paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Lower Miocene upper part of the Lincoln Creek Formation in southwestern Washington, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 351, 1-42

Covacevich V., Frassinetti D. (1986) El genero Cancellaria en el Mioceno de Chile con descripcion de cuatro especies nuevas (Gaastropoda: Cancellariidae), Revista Geológica de Chile 28-29, 33-67

Wilson B. (1994) , Australian Marine Shells 2

Baluk W. (2003) Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV – Turridae, Acta Geological Polonica 53 1, 29-78

Harzhauser M., Euter M., et al (2009) Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83, 333-372

Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308. - via World Register of Marine Species

Schumacher C.F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls. - via World Register of Marine Species

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ess. Vers test., 66 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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