Teinostoma moodiense

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TeinostomaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Teinostoma moodiense on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group6
- Yazoo Clay Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Teinostoma moodiense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Teinostoma moodiense and its relatives
EoceneWhere Teinostoma moodiense and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
144 taxa- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta5 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus4 sites
- Caestocorbula wailesiana4 sites
- Corbula densata4 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata4 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis4 sites
- Sinistrella americana4 sites
- Spisula jacksonensis4 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata4 sites
- Actinopterygii3 sites
- Alveinus minutus3 sites
- Bittium koeneni3 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Callista annexa3 sites
- Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater3 sites
- Capulus americanus3 sites
- Crassinella pygmaea3 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Hipponix3 sites
- Kapalmerella arenicola3 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta3 sites
- Pleuromeris3 sites
- Pteria limula3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Teinostoma moodiense, 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- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- The Mollusca of the Mississippi Embayment (Sabine River to the Alabama River). Pt. II. Univalves and index1
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 Teinostoma moodiense
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Teinostoma moodiense 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 itTeinostoma through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris and Palmer 1947