Tellina (Moerella) piesa
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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 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Tellina (Moerella) piesa on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
- Shoal River Formation · Alum Bluff Group17
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The named rock units Tellina (Moerella) piesa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tellina (Moerella) piesa and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tellina (Moerella) piesa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Parvilucina14 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula)13 sites
- Crassinella13 sites
- Nuculana13 sites
- Nucula12 sites
- Crassatella densus11 sites
- Anadara10 sites
- Chlamys10 sites
- Varicorbula disparilis10 sites
- Tectonatica9 sites
- Cardium (Cerastoderma) waltonianum8 sites
- Costaglycymeris waltonensis8 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) dalli8 sites
- Spisula craspedota8 sites
- Anomia7 sites
- Astarte (Ashtarotha)7 sites
- Natica judsoni7 sites
- Neverita7 sites
- Strombina7 sites
- Yoldia7 sites
- Acteocina6 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma)6 sites
- Calyptraea centralis6 sites
- Cancellaria6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Tellina (Moerella) piesa, 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
3 references- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida14
- Mollusca: Shoal River Formation (Middle Miocene2
- Micropaleontology and stratigraphy of a deep well at Niceville, Okaloosa County, Florida1
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 content0
No picture of Tellina (Moerella) piesa 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 Tellina (Moerella) piesa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tellina (Moerella) piesa 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gardner 1947