Tegula

Tegula is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tegulidae.

Tegula

Steve Lonhart (SIMoN / MBNMS) · Public Domain · 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
TegulidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Trochoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trochoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 164 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 164 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 164 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 164 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 26 of 164 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 21 of 164 occurrencesPleistocene — about 87 of 164 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 19 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 113 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

164 occurrences of Tegula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

164 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

47 formations

Discovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.27°WDiscovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.23°WDiscovery Point — 29.10°N, 118.25°WDiscovery Point — 28.88°N, 118.29°WDiscovery Point — 29.07°N, 118.23°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.72°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.64°N, 117.89°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WSanta Margarita — 36.29°N, 120.32°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°WTemblor — 35.39°N, 119.80°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.20°S, 70.88°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WChenque — 48.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julián — 47.03°S, 66.70°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WChilcatay — 14.37°S, 75.90°WChilcatay — 14.20°S, 76.12°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.10°S, 71.13°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.38°S, 71.17°WVaqueros — 34.45°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.37°N, 119.33°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WEntrerriense — 42.08°S, 63.83°WNavidad — 33.89°S, 71.83°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WTopanga — 33.56°N, 117.75°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°W

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The named rock units Tegula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tegula and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tegula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,564 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Tegula, 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

66 references

Each of the 164 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. 54 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Tegula

Credit
Steve Lonhart (SIMoN / MBNMS)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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What may have been alongside itTegulidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesson 1835