Tenagodus

Tenagodus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
SiliquariidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Siliquariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Siliquariidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Siliquariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 121 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 121 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 121 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 121 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 121 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 121 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 121 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 121 occurrencesEocene — about 50 of 121 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 121 occurrencesMiocene — about 32 of 121 occurrencesPliocene — about 15 of 121 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 121 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 3 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 13 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 34 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 8 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 42 occurrences233.6 Mya129 ka242 Mya0 Mya

121 occurrences of Tenagodus on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

121 occurrences

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

50 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.89°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.70°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WPallinup — 33.97°S, 122.17°EPallinup — 33.83°S, 122.16°EPallinup — 34.63°S, 116.30°EPallinup — 34.11°S, 118.92°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.95°S, 138.57°EDry Creek Sands — 34.97°S, 138.54°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ESantee Limestone — 33.51°N, 80.49°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WCrescent — 47.08°N, 123.83°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 30.69°N, 84.84°WNdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°EMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ESanta Susana — 34.11°N, 118.57°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.77°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WBateque — 26.67°N, 112.94°WKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°EWoodbury — 39.91°N, 75.03°WBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WRifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°E

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The named rock units Tenagodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tenagodus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Tenagodus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,552 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Tenagodus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

52 references

Each of the 121 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. 40 further references are not listed. 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 Tenagodus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Tenagodus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guettard 1770