Marine Species Traits - Turritella ola Plummer, 1933 †

Traits taxon details

Turritella ola Plummer, 1933 †

AphiaID

1878141 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1878141)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Turritella Lamarck, 1799

Original name

Turritella ola Plummer, 1933 †

Synonymised names

Turritella bilira Stephenson, 1941 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

fossil only

Original description

Plummer, F. B. (1933). Part 3: Cenozoic systems in Texas. in Sellards; E. H.; Adkins, W. S.; Plummer, F. B. (Eds.) The Geology of Texas, Vol. 1, Stratigraphy. University of Texas Bulletin. 3232, pp. 519-818.
page(s): p. 815, pl. 10, fig. 2. [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Turritella ola Plummer, 1933 †. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026) Marine Species Traits at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1878141 on 2026-08-01

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Turritella ola Plummer, 1933 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1878141 on 2026-08-01

Taxonomic edit history

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2026-04-17 08:53:29Z

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Vos, Chris

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Sources (7)

original description Plummer, F. B. (1933). Part 3: Cenozoic systems in Texas. in Sellards; E. H.; Adkins, W. S.; Plummer, F. B. (Eds.) The Geology of Texas, Vol. 1, Stratigraphy. University of Texas Bulletin. 3232, pp. 519-818.
page(s): p. 815, pl. 10, fig. 2. [details] Available for editors

original description (of Turritella bilira Stephenson, 1941 †) Stephenson, L. W. (1941). The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro Group of Texas (exclusive of corals and crustaceans and exclusive of the fauna of the Escondido Formation). The University of Texas Publication. 4101: 1-641.
page(s): p. 288-289, pl. 52, figs 9-16. [details] Available for editors

additional source Gardner, J. A. (1935). The Midway Group of Texas, including a chapter on the coral fauna by Thomas Wayland Vaughan and Willis Parkison Popenoe. The University of Texas Bulletin. 3301: 1-403., available online at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001488890
page(s): p. 291. [details] Available for editors

additional source Allmon, W. D. (1996). Systematics and Evolution of Cenozoic American Turritellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) I: Paleocene and Eocene Coastal Plain Species Related to " Turritella mortoni Conrad" and "Turritella humerosa Conrad". Palaeontographica Americana. Number 59, pp. 134, 14 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28875151#page/3/mode/1up
page(s): p. 37, pl. 11, fig. 2. [details]

additional source Garvie, C. L. (2021). The macrofauna of the Tehuacana Limestone Member (Danian, Kincaid Formation) of Central Texas, with the description of a few new taxa from the Pisgah Member. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 399-400: 1-292; 21 plates., available online at https://doi.org/10.32857/bap.2021.399.01
page(s): 57, pl. 7, figs 1, 2 [details]

additional source Bowles, E. (1939). Eocene and Paleocene Turritellidae of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain of North America. Journal of Paleontology. 13:267-336, pls 31-34.
page(s): p. 320. [details]

additional source Stenzel, H. B.; Turner, F. E. (1940). Turritellidae from the Paleocene and Eocene of the Gulf Coast. University of Texas Bulletin. 3945, pp. 829-847.
page(s): p. 834-835, pl. 46, fig. 3. [details] Available for editors