Tellidora cristata

Tellidora cristata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TellidoraPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellidora
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Tellidora
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellidora
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 21 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 21 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 4 of 21 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences7.246 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Tellidora cristata 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

21 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

9 formations

Fort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WRio Banano — 9.62°N, 82.83°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.94°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°W

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The named rock units Tellidora cristata 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.

Tellidora cristata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tellidora cristata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

566 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Tellidora cristata, 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

11 references

Each of the 21 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 Tellidora cristata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Tellidora cristata 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 itTellidora through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Récluz 1842)