Tellina (Angulus) simiensis

Tellina simiensis (Nelson, 1925), a relative of Tellina (Angulus) simiensis — not Tellina (Angulus) simiensis itself

Not Tellina (Angulus) simiensis. This is Tellina simiensis (Nelson, 1925), a relative — both are Tellinidae.

via GBIF · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
AngulusPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Angulus
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Angulus
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Angulus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 61.66 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 10 of 11 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesEocene62–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–59 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62.2 Mya47.6 Mya

11 occurrences of Tellina (Angulus) simiensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

11 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

Santa Susana — 34.26°N, 118.70°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.73°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.80°W

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The named rock units Tellina (Angulus) simiensis 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.

Tellina (Angulus) simiensis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Tellina (Angulus) simiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Tellina (Angulus) simiensis, 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 reference

Each of the 11 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

Media content1

Picture of Tellina simiensis (Nelson, 1925)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itAngulus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nelson 1925)