Tellina (Eurytellina)

Eurytellina alternata (Say, 1822), a relative of Tellina (Eurytellina) — not Tellina (Eurytellina) itself

Not Tellina (Eurytellina). This is Eurytellina alternata (Say, 1822), a relative — both are Tellinidae.

Ashwin Srinivasan · 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
TellinaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 337 occurrencesPaleocene — about 8 of 337 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 94 of 337 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 337 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 112 of 337 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 61 of 337 occurrencesPleistocene — about 42 of 337 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 16 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 39 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 13 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 12 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 12 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 12 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 8 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 28 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 24 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 23 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 47 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 46 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

337 occurrences of Tellina (Eurytellina) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

337 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

81 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.64°WMoodys Branch — 31.86°N, 88.70°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.51°N, 87.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WStone City — 30.63°N, 96.54°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 95.94°WCook Mountain — 29.95°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCastilletes — 11.94°N, 71.32°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 88.05°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.13°N, 123.37°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.69°N, 123.19°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.00°N, 123.26°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.90°N, 123.15°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WMartinez — 38.06°N, 122.24°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.21°N, 121.99°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WZorritos — 3.67°S, 80.65°WZorritos — 3.80°S, 80.50°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.10°N, 97.30°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WBohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.08°W

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The named rock units Tellina (Eurytellina) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 57 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tellina (Eurytellina) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tellina (Eurytellina) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,653 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 194 sites for Tellina (Eurytellina), and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

73 references

Each of the 337 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. 61 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 content1

Picture of Eurytellina alternata (Say, 1822)

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

No 3D scan of Tellina (Eurytellina) 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 itTellina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fischer 1887)