Patelloida tejonensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PatelloidaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Lottiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lottiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Lottiidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Patelloida tejonensis 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
7 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Patelloida tejonensis 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.
Patelloida tejonensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Patelloida tejonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Schedocardia brewerii4 sites
- Amaurellina moragai3 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum3 sites
- Pitar uvasana3 sites
- Acmaeidae2 sites
- Bonellitia (Admetula) paucivaricata2 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) dichotomus2 sites
- Conus (Hemiconus) aegilops2 sites
- Crassatella uvasana2 sites
- Dendrophyllia tejonensis2 sites
- Exilia fausta2 sites
- Gemmula abacta2 sites
- Macoma viticola2 sites
- Molopophorus cretaceus2 sites
- Naticidae2 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii2 sites
- Patelloida triquetrus2 sites
- Patelloida vokesi2 sites
- Pseudoperissolax blakei2 sites
- Turritella buwaldana2 sites
- Turritella uvasana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Patelloida tejonensis, 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
4 references- Patellogastropods (Mollusca) from the Eocene Tejon Formation of southern California4
- New Species of Middle Eocene Gastropods from the Northern Doty Hills, Southwestern Washington1
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California1
- Fauna and stratigraphic relations of the Tejon Eocene at the type locality in Kern County, California1
Each of the 7 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 Patelloida tejonensis
- 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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPatelloida through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1869)