Tellina (Eurytellina) regia
Not Tellina (Eurytellina) regia. This is Tellina regia Hanley, 1844, a relative — both are Tellinidae.
via GBIF · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Tellina (Eurytellina)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Tellina (Eurytellina)
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Tellina (Eurytellina)
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellina (Eurytellina)
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Tellina (Eurytellina) regia 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene73%
- Holocene2%
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 Tellina (Eurytellina) regia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tellina (Eurytellina) regia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tellina (Eurytellina) regia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
211 taxa- Lirophora mariae3 sites
- Mexicardia procera3 sites
- Raeta undulata3 sites
- Anadara nux2 sites
- Anomia peruviana2 sites
- Argopecten ventricosus2 sites
- Calyptraea mamillaris2 sites
- Caryocorbula marmorata2 sites
- Caryocorbula ovulata2 sites
- Chionopsis amathusia2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Donax (Paradonax) gracilis2 sites
- Dosinia dunkeri2 sites
- Dosinia ponderosa2 sites
- Hybolophus gibbosus2 sites
- Juliacorbula bicarinata2 sites
- Leptopecten tumbezensis2 sites
- Mactrotoma californica2 sites
- Polinices uber2 sites
- Pteria sterna2 sites
- Theodoxus (Vittoclithon) luteofasciatus2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Acanthina1 site
- Acteocina inculta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tellina (Eurytellina) regia, 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
4 references- Quaternary invertebrate fossil assemblages from coastal marine ecosystems of Bahia de Panama, Panama1
- Paleoecology and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene deposits of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico)1
- Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica1
- A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Tellina regia Hanley, 1844
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tellina (Eurytellina) regia 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 (Eurytellina) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hanley 1844)