Tellina madagascariensis
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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 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Tellina madagascariensis 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
9 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Tellina madagascariensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tellina madagascariensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
4 taxa- Buccinum callosum1 site
- Bullia laevissima1 site
- Dosinia lupina1 site
- Stramonita haemostoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tellina madagascariensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca7
- Paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographical implications of a Middle Pleistocene mollusc assemblage from the marine terraces of Baía das Pipas, southwest Angola1
- Pleistocene shorelines in the Western Cape and South-West Africa1
Each of the 9 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 madagascariensis 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 madagascariensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tellina madagascariensis 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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gmelin 1791