Tellinella rovala
No picture of Tellinella rovala was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Tellinella rovala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Tellina (Tellinella)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Tellina (Tellinella)
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Tellina (Tellinella)
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellina (Tellinella)
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
3 occurrences of Tellinella rovala 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
- Chagres Sandstone Formation1
- Limónes Formation1
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
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The named rock units Tellinella rovala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Amusium mimyum1 site
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis karsteni1 site
- Arcinella1 site
- Argopecten nerterus1 site
- Crucibulum1 site
- Ficus carbasea carbasea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tellinella rovala, 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
2 references- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae).2
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica1
Each of the 3 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 Tellinella rovala was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Tellinella rovala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tellinella rovala 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 (Tellinella) through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson 1922)