Tellina (Elliptotellina)

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 2 of 25 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 25 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 25 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 25 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59.24 Mya2.58 Mya63 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Tellina (Elliptotellina) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

25 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

14 formations

Banc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.96°S, 176.58°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.12°WQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°WTownsend Shale — 47.54°N, 122.64°W

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The named rock units Tellina (Elliptotellina) 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.

Tellina (Elliptotellina) and its relatives

Eocene

Where Tellina (Elliptotellina) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,819 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Tellina (Elliptotellina), 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

18 references

Each of the 25 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. 6 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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No picture of Tellina (Elliptotellina) was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tellina (Elliptotellina) itself, so it was not used.

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itTellina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1886)