Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis

Tellina lincolnensis (Weaver, 1916), a relative of Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis — not Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis itself

Not Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis. This is Tellina lincolnensis (Weaver, 1916), a relative — both are Tellinidae.

Retallack, Gregory · 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 (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 least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 14 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya23.04 Mya48.7 Mya15.3 Mya

17 occurrences of Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis on record. 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

17 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

3 formations

Eugene — 44.06°N, 123.22°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.16°N, 123.05°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.02°WEugene — 45.21°N, 123.20°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°WLincoln Creek — 46.74°N, 123.03°WNiklekuyul'skaya — 62.50°N, 167.00°E

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The named rock units Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis 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.

Found in the same rock

197 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis, 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

Each of the 17 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 Tellina lincolnensis (Weaver, 1916)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Retallack, Gregory
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weaver 1916)