Serratina

Serratina is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the subfamily Tellininae of the family Tellinidae.

Serratina

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TellinidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Tellinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesOligocene — about 8 of 25 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 25 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Serratina on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

25 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

14 formations

Pamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WForest Hill — 31.66°N, 88.66°WForest Hill — 30.98°N, 88.73°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.92°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WChagres Sandstone — 8.85°N, 81.70°WRaysor Marl — 33.10°N, 80.67°WTainui Shell Bed — 39.95°S, 174.98°EMonte Leon — 50.32°S, 68.86°W

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The named rock units Serratina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Serratina and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Serratina and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

1,058 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Serratina, 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

14 references

Each of the 25 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. 2 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 content2

Picture of Serratina

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Serratina martinicensis · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:82266

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itTellinidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pallary 1922