Moerella dupliniana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Tellina (Moerella)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Tellina (Moerella)
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Tellina (Moerella)
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellina (Moerella)
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Moerella dupliniana on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
13 occurrences- Pliocene54%
- Pleistocene46%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Moerella dupliniana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Moerella dupliniana and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Moerella dupliniana and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
214 taxa- Crassinella lunulata10 sites
- Carolinapecten eboreus9 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi9 sites
- Pteromeris perplana9 sites
- Abra aequalis8 sites
- Astarte concentrica8 sites
- Chione cribraria8 sites
- Donax8 sites
- Glycymeris americana8 sites
- Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula8 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata8 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa8 sites
- Glans (Pleuromeris) tridentata decemcostata7 sites
- Glans (Pteromeris) perplana abbreviata7 sites
- Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta7 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima7 sites
- Urosalpinx7 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa6 sites
- Astarte (Ashtarotha) concentrica conradi6 sites
- Astyris lunata6 sites
- Bornia triangula6 sites
- Donax fossor6 sites
- Gemma magna6 sites
- Ilyanassa scalaspira6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Moerella dupliniana, 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
2 references- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda11
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Moerella dupliniana 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 dupliniana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Moerella dupliniana 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 itTellina (Moerella) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1900)