Moerella (Scissula)

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 7 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 24 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 13 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Moerella (Scissula) on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

24 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

11 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.40°WPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°W

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The named rock units Moerella (Scissula) 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.

Moerella (Scissula) and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Moerella (Scissula) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,594 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Moerella (Scissula), 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

13 references

Each of the 24 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. 1 further reference is 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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No picture of Moerella (Scissula) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Moerella (Scissula), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Moerella (Scissula) 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 itTellina (Moerella) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1900)