Tenea

Tenea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArcticidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 194 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 188 of 194 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 194 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 194 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 5 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 5 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 8 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 14 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 14 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 6 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 6 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 6 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 6 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 6 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 25 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 28 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 28 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 19 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100.5 Mya59.24 Mya107 Mya55 Mya

194 occurrences of Tenea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

194 occurrences

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

37 formations

Ladd — 33.69°N, 117.61°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.65°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.25°WRedding — 40.67°N, 122.19°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.16°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 95.60°WGalala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°EOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.02°N, 89.85°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.19°N, 97.57°WRaha — 30.00°N, 32.67°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EChiwapa — 34.60°N, 88.95°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.84°WChiwapa — 34.51°N, 88.93°WNeylandville Marl — 31.48°N, 96.73°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WChatsworth — 34.20°N, 118.69°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WMoreno — 36.90°N, 120.80°WPanoche — 37.39°N, 121.37°WPanoche — 37.20°N, 121.21°WWilliams — 33.70°N, 117.63°WWilliams — 33.71°N, 117.71°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°ESandy Hook — 40.40°N, 74.12°W

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The named rock units Tenea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tenea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tenea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,091 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 177 sites for Tenea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

31 references

Each of the 194 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. 19 further references are not listed. 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 Tenea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itArcticidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1870