Tellina (Eurytellina) nitens

Searched as Eurytellina nitens. The Paleobiology Database treats Tellina (Eurytellina) nitens as the accepted name.

Tellina (Eurytellina) nitens

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Tellina (Eurytellina)PBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellina (Eurytellina)
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Tellina (Eurytellina)
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellina (Eurytellina)
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 6.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 9 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 9 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.246 Mya774 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

9 occurrences of Tellina (Eurytellina) nitens on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

9 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

4 formations

Playa Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°W

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The named rock units Tellina (Eurytellina) nitens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tellina (Eurytellina) nitens and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Tellina (Eurytellina) nitens and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

219 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tellina (Eurytellina) nitens, 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

Each of the 9 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.

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Specimen
Eurytellina nitens · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:164969

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. (Adams 1845)