Tectonatica

Tectonatica is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Tectonatica

Sébastien Vasquez · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NaticinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 201 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 201 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 201 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 201 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 117 of 201 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 40 of 201 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 201 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 12 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 12 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 14 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 31 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 16 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 16 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 21 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 34 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

201 occurrences of Tectonatica on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

201 occurrences

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

43 formations

Shoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ETalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WYorktown — 37.10°N, 76.39°WBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°ETachilni — 54.79°N, 163.36°WTachilni — 54.85°N, 163.41°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WAtsunai — 43.08°N, 143.83°EAtsunai — 42.80°N, 143.81°EDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°E

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The named rock units Tectonatica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tectonatica and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tectonatica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,927 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 124 sites for Tectonatica, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

47 references

Each of the 201 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. 35 further references are not listed. 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 Tectonatica

Credit
Sébastien Vasquez
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNaticinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sacco 1890)