Tectonatica pusilla

Tectonatica pusilla is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Tectonatica pusilla

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · CC0 · 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
TectonaticaPBDB
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 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 46 occurrencesPliocene — about 19 of 46 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 18 of 46 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 9 of 46 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–972 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

46 occurrences of Tectonatica pusilla on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

46 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

16 formations

Talparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°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°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.86°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.18°W

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The named rock units Tectonatica pusilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tectonatica pusilla and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Tectonatica pusilla and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,552 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Tectonatica pusilla, 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

20 references

Each of the 46 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. 8 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 pusilla

Credit
Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
Licence
CC0
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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1822)