Tellina soledadensis

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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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Tellina soledadensis 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
15 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
8 formations
- Flournoy Formation · Umpqua Group5
- Raging River Formation2
- Santiago Formation2
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group2
- Domengine Formation1
- Roseburg Formation · Umpqua Group1
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The named rock units Tellina soledadensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tellina soledadensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tellina soledadensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Calyptraea diegoana7 sites
- Ficopsis remondii7 sites
- Tejonia moragai6 sites
- Brachiodontes5 sites
- Crommium andersoni5 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum5 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa5 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa4 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla4 sites
- Ostrea4 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii4 sites
- Turritella uvasana hendoni4 sites
- Venericardia (Pacificor) aragonia4 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata3 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis3 sites
- Calorebama dilleri3 sites
- Cryptochorda (Cryptochorda) californica3 sites
- Eocernina hannibali3 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii umpquaensis3 sites
- Macrocallista (Costacallista) conradiana meganosensis3 sites
- Marcia (Mercimonia) bunkeri3 sites
- Pachycrommium clarki3 sites
- Pitar3 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) morsei2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Tellina soledadensis, 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
7 references- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon7
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California2
- Geology and coal resources of the Cumberland. Hobart, and Maple Valley Quadrangles, King County, Washington2
- A Middle Eocene marine molluscan assemblage form the usually nonmarine Friars Formation, San Diego County, California1
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California1
- Molluscan faunas of the Domengine and Arroyo Hondo Formations of the California Eocene1
- An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California1
Each of the 15 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 soledadensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Tellina soledadensis 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. Hanna 1927