Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Tellina (Eurytellina)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Tellina (Eurytellina)
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Tellina (Eurytellina)
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellina (Eurytellina)
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
20 occurrences of Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
20 occurrences- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene60%
- Holocene30%
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
9 formations
- Pamlico Formation5
- Caloosahatchee Formation2
- New Orleans Barrier Trend Formation2
- Michoud Formation2
- Playa Grande Formation · Cabo Blanco Group1
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group1
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The named rock units Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
736 taxa- Abra aequalis12 sites
- Neverita duplicatus11 sites
- Acteocina canaliculata10 sites
- Mulinia lateralis10 sites
- Nassarius vibex9 sites
- Angulus texanus8 sites
- Crepidula plana8 sites
- Dinocardium robustum8 sites
- Lunarca ovalis8 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis8 sites
- Oliva (Ispidula) sayana8 sites
- Olivella mutica8 sites
- Raeta (Raeta) plicatella8 sites
- Anomia simplex7 sites
- Crassinella lunulata7 sites
- Crassostrea virginica7 sites
- Crepidula fornicata7 sites
- Laevicardium serratum7 sites
- Nassarius (Nassarius) acutus7 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata7 sites
- Tectonatica pusilla7 sites
- Tellidora cristata7 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa6 sites
- Anodontia alba6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata, 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
12 references- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America5
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana3
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana3
- The benthic mollusk faunas of two contrasting reef paleosubenvironments: Falmouth Formation (late Pleistocene, last interglacial), Jamaica1
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida1
- Neogene Stratigraphy of the lower Coast Plain of the Carolinas1
- Late Cenozoic pelecypods from northern Venezuela1
- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida1
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida1
- Miocene pelecypods of the Choctawatchee Formation of Florida1
- Two collections of Pleistocene fossils from the Isthmus of Panama1
- Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South Carolina1
Each of the 20 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.
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No picture of Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata 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 Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata 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 itTellina (Eurytellina) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1822)