Tectus cognatus
No picture of Tectus cognatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Tectus cognatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TectusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Trochidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trochidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Trochidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tectus cognatus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Tectus cognatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tectus cognatus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tectus cognatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Agaronia pupa1 site
- Athleta (Volutospina) dentata1 site
- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) pseudocorrugatum1 site
- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rude1 site
- Cernina carlei1 site
- Clypeaster1 site
- Distorsio decipiens1 site
- Gemmula gajensis1 site
- Gyrineum bituberculare1 site
- Haustator tauroperturritus1 site
- Hemipolygona1 site
- Kuphus1 site
- Lyria (Harpeola) jugosa1 site
- Natica obscura1 site
- Pachycrommium harrisi1 site
- Pectinidae1 site
- Periglypta1 site
- Persististrombus depertitus1 site
- Phasianella variegata1 site
- Placuna1 site
- Pugilina eulactea1 site
- Scleractinia1 site
- Solen1 site
- Thalassinoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tectus cognatus, 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- Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific1
- The Miocene Mollusca from Quilon, Kerala (India)1
- Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Tectus cognatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Tectus cognatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tectus cognatus 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 itTectus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1840)