Tegula tridentata

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- TegulaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Trochoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trochoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Trochoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Tegula tridentata 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Tegula tridentata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tegula tridentata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tegula tridentata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Choromytilus chorus4 sites
- Concholepas concholepas4 sites
- Incatella cingulata4 sites
- Tagelus dombeii4 sites
- Argopecten purpuratus3 sites
- Chlorostoma luctuosum3 sites
- Crucibulum3 sites
- Leukoma thaca3 sites
- Mulinia edulis3 sites
- Oliva peruviana3 sites
- Priene scabrum3 sites
- Semele (Semele) solida3 sites
- Stramonita chocolata3 sites
- Transennella3 sites
- Ameghinomya antiqua2 sites
- Calyptraea trochiformis2 sites
- Chama pellucida2 sites
- Chlorostoma atrum2 sites
- Chlorostoma euryomphalum2 sites
- Crassilabrum crassilabrum2 sites
- Crepipatella dilatata2 sites
- Fissurella2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Mesodesma (Mesodesma) donacium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tegula tridentata, 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
3 references- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0003
- A Late Pleistocene macrobenthic assemblage in Caleta Patillos, northern Chile: paleoecological and paleobiogeographical interpretations1
- Late Cenozoic Tegulinae (Gastropoda: Trochidae) from southern Peru1
Each of the 5 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. 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 Tegula tridentata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tegula tridentata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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. (Potiez and Michaud 1838)