Tejonia moragai

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TejoniaPBDB
- 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 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
58 occurrences of Tejonia moragai on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
58 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
13 formations
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group17
- Roseburg Formation · Umpqua Group9
- Flournoy Formation · Umpqua Group8
- Ardath Formation · La Jolla Group6
- Santiago Formation4
- Llajas Formation4
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The named rock units Tejonia moragai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tejonia moragai and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tejonia moragai and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
380 taxa- Ficopsis remondii27 sites
- Rimella supraplicata18 sites
- Caryocorbula parilis17 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum17 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana16 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla13 sites
- Eocernina hannibali13 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) rosecanyonensis13 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa12 sites
- Phalium (Semicassis) tuberculiformis12 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii12 sites
- Brachiodontes11 sites
- Crassatella uvasana11 sites
- Pseudoperissolax blakei11 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus11 sites
- Turritella uvasana applinae11 sites
- Turritella uvasana neopleura11 sites
- Bittium cliffensis10 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii10 sites
- Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) domenginica10 sites
- Pachycrommium clarki10 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis9 sites
- Cryptochorda (Cryptochorda) californica9 sites
- Pleurofusia fresnoensis9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Tejonia moragai, 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
10 references- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California24
- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon19
- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California4
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California4
- Geologic Map and Database of the Roseburg 30 x 60' Quadrangle, Douglas and Coos Counties, Oregon2
- Marine fauna of the middle Eocene Tukwila Formation, King County1
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of Eocene rocks at Pulali Point, Jefferson County, Olympic Peninsula, Washington1
- Two New Species of Gastropods from the Middle Eocene of California1
- Eocene Faunas from the Department of Bolivar, Colombia1
- Molluscan faunas of the Domengine and Arroyo Hondo Formations of the California Eocene1
Each of the 58 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 Tejonia moragai
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Tejonia moragai 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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What may have been alongside itTejonia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stewart 1927)