Tellidorella mclellani
No picture of Tellidorella mclellani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tellidorella mclellani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TellidorellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tellidorella
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Tellidorella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellidorella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tellidorella mclellani 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
3 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
1 formation
- Ardath Formation · La Jolla Group1
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The named rock units Tellidorella mclellani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tellidorella mclellani and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tellidorella mclellani and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Teinostoma monta2 sites
- Turritella uvasana applinae2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Adula mcknighti1 site
- Agnocardia sorrentoensis1 site
- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi1 site
- Arcopsis (Arcopsis) eba1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) cliffensis1 site
- Cancellaria bournei1 site
- Cardiomya israelskya1 site
- Corbula cliffensis1 site
- Corbula wardii1 site
- Crassatella mulates1 site
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus1 site
- Eocernina hannibali1 site
- Eosurcula praeattenuata1 site
- Flabellum sandiegoense1 site
- Fusinus teglandae1 site
- Gastrochaena dubitata1 site
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) rosecanyonensis1 site
- Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) sandiegoensis1 site
- Lyrischapa lajollaensis1 site
- Mitra minori1 site
- Natica (Carinacca) rosensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tellidorella mclellani, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tellidorella mclellani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tellidorella mclellani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tellidorella mclellani 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 itTellidorella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hanna 1927)