Tectospira gracilis
No picture of Tectospira gracilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tectospira gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TectospiraPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Tectospira gracilis on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
1 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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.
Tectospira gracilis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Tectospira gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Adygella himalayana1 site
- Aegeiceras ugra1 site
- Ceratites (Florianites) kansa1 site
- Coenothyris vulgaris1 site
- Dalmatites ropini1 site
- Durgaites dieneri1 site
- Durgaites prahlada1 site
- Gymnites depauperatus1 site
- Gymnites sankara1 site
- Hollandites dungara1 site
- Isculites hauerinus1 site
- Keyserlingites1 site
- Keyserlingites pahari1 site
- Keyserlingites subrobustus1 site
- Leiophyllites confucii1 site
- Leiophyllites pradyumna1 site
- Nudirostralina dieneri1 site
- Nudirostralina mutabilis1 site
- Permophorus1 site
- Stacheites webbianus1 site
- Trematoceras elegans1 site
- Tulungospirifer stracheyi1 site
- Ussurites hara1 site
- Ussurites kingi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tectospira gracilis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Tectospira gracilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tectospira gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tectospira gracilis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTectospira through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blaschke 1907