Tugali
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
- EmarginulinaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Fissurellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
8 occurrences of Tugali on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Merlinleigh Sandstone Formation3
- Otahuhu Formation1
- Dry Creek Sands Formation1
- Rifle Butts Formation · Kaierero Group1
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The named rock units Tugali has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tugali and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tugali and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
220 taxa- Aturia clarkei3 sites
- Chama3 sites
- Dosinia (Kereia) numerosissima3 sites
- Glycymeris cainozoica3 sites
- Venericardia capricornis3 sites
- Amalda (Baryspira)2 sites
- Austrovenus2 sites
- Bedeva2 sites
- Cominella (Cominella)2 sites
- Crepidula2 sites
- Cylichna2 sites
- Lutraria2 sites
- Notocallista2 sites
- Ostrea chilensis2 sites
- Penion2 sites
- Periglypta weegeeree2 sites
- Tawera2 sites
- Teredinidae2 sites
- Turbo (Euninella) hamiltonensis2 sites
- Zeacumantus2 sites
- Acteon1 site
- Amphibola aff. crenata1 site
- Ancilla (Turrancilla)1 site
- Anomia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Tugali, 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
6 references- Eocene molluscs from the Merlinleigh Sandstone, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia3
- Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand1
- Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa1
- The geology of Tongarairo Subdivision1
- The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision1
- The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. Part III - Scaphopoda, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda (Haliotidae-Tornidae)1
Each of the 8 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 Tugali
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- 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 Tugali 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 itEmarginulinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1843