Tectus fenestratus
Tectus fenestratus, common name the fenestrate top shell or the latticed top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- TectusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Trochidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trochidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Trochidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Tectus fenestratus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene80%
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 Tectus fenestratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tectus fenestratus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tectus fenestratus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Fragum unedo4 sites
- Acrosterigma3 sites
- Amoria3 sites
- Bulla3 sites
- Callista3 sites
- Circe lenticularis3 sites
- Fragum3 sites
- Galaxea astreata3 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia)3 sites
- Megacardita3 sites
- Placamen3 sites
- Tectus pyramis3 sites
- Turbo haynesi3 sites
- Atactodea striata2 sites
- Brachidontes ustulatus2 sites
- Cymbiola nivosa oblita2 sites
- Divaricella ornata2 sites
- Dosinia2 sites
- Laevidentalium2 sites
- Rhinoclavis aspera2 sites
- Rhinoclavis fasciata2 sites
- Saccostrea cuccullata2 sites
- Septa2 sites
- Thalotia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tectus fenestratus, 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
2 referencesEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Tectus fenestratus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tectus fenestratus 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gmelin 1791