Idatellina idae

Idatellina idae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Ida's tellinPBDB
Sits inside
IdatellinaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Tellinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 38 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 13 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Idatellina idae 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

38 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

12 formations

Pico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.55°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.86°N, 120.46°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WPancho Rico — 36.13°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 120.56°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WAstoria — 43.40°N, 124.28°WSespe — 33.76°N, 117.78°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°W

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The named rock units Idatellina idae 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.

Idatellina idae and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Idatellina idae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,097 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Idatellina idae, 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

20 references

Each of the 38 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. 8 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

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Picture of Idatellina idae

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No 3D scan of Idatellina idae 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itIdatellina through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1891)