Pleuromya tellina

Pleuromya tellina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 6 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous155–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152.21 Mya137.05 Mya155.3 Mya132.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Pleuromya tellina on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

7 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

1 formation

San Ricardo — 16.67°N, 93.53°W

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The named rock units Pleuromya tellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleuromya tellina and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pleuromya tellina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pleuromya tellina, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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 Pleuromya tellina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pleuromya tellina 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 itPleuromya through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1842