Kelliella

Kelliella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KelliellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 57 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 57 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 34 of 57 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 57 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 57 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 57 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 57 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 6 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–1.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences66 Mya3.6 Mya74 Mya1 Mya

57 occurrences of Kelliella on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

57 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

19 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 30.59°N, 97.30°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WWills Point — 30.17°N, 97.46°WWills Point — 30.09°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 29.89°N, 97.67°WYazoo Clay — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMount Selman — 25.70°N, 99.23°WCockfield — 31.88°N, 88.69°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBruxellian — 51.17°N, 3.33°ECook Mountain — 31.60°N, 94.66°WOwl Creek — 34.76°N, 88.93°W

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The named rock units Kelliella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kelliella and its relatives

Eocene

Where Kelliella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,561 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Kelliella, 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

18 references

Each of the 57 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. 6 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 Kelliella

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

No 3D scan of Kelliella was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itKelliellidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sars 1865