Tellina cowlitzensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TellinaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Tellina
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Tellina
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Tellina cowlitzensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
12 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
- Coaledo Formation6
- Cowlitz Formation2
- Santiago Formation1
- Tukwila Formation · Puget Group1
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The named rock units Tellina cowlitzensis 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.
Tellina cowlitzensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tellina cowlitzensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
174 taxa- Polinices hornii6 sites
- Acrilla (Ferminoscala) aragoensis5 sites
- Pitar5 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana4 sites
- Crassatella dalli4 sites
- Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) eocenica4 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis4 sites
- Priscoficus cowlitzensis4 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii4 sites
- Surcula washingtoniana4 sites
- Turritella uvasana stewarti4 sites
- Venericardia hornii clarki4 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cooperi3 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis3 sites
- Colwellia3 sites
- Cominella eocenica3 sites
- Exilia dickersoni3 sites
- Murex sopenahensis3 sites
- Nuculana cowlitzensis3 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii3 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) hotsoni3 sites
- Siphonalia (Nassicola) sopenahensis3 sites
- Spirocrypta pileum3 sites
- Spisula packardi yokamensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Tellina cowlitzensis, 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
5 references- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon6
- Paleoecological anlaysis of molluscan assemblages from the Middle Eocene Cowlitz Formation, southwestern Washington2
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington2
- Marine fauna of the middle Eocene Tukwila Formation, King County1
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Tellina cowlitzensis 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 cowlitzensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tellina cowlitzensis 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 itTellina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weaver 1916