Tellina (Moerella)

Moerella pulchella (Lamarck, 1818), a relative of Tellina (Moerella) — not Tellina (Moerella) itself

Not Tellina (Moerella). This is Moerella pulchella (Lamarck, 1818), a relative — both are Tellinidae.

manelor · CC BY-NC 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 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 235 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 235 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 58 of 235 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 16 of 235 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 70 of 235 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 41 of 235 occurrencesPleistocene — about 43 of 235 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 17 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 18 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 17 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 15 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 17 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 40 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 42 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

235 occurrences of Tellina (Moerella) 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

235 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

52 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WKeasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 45.72°N, 123.20°WKeasey — 45.74°N, 123.27°WKeasey — 46.00°N, 123.26°WKeasey — 45.88°N, 123.26°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.32°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WEugene — 44.06°N, 123.22°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.16°N, 123.05°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.02°WEugene — 45.21°N, 123.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WWaccamaw — 34.50°N, 79.11°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.15°N, 76.74°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WPacific Muck — 8.89°N, 79.66°WPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°WFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WStone City — 30.63°N, 96.54°WFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°ECercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WKirkwood — 39.36°N, 74.42°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WSt Mary's — 37.66°N, 76.75°WConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.98°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°W

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The named rock units Tellina (Moerella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tellina (Moerella) and its relatives

Miocene

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

Found in the same rock

2,520 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 160 sites for Tellina (Moerella), 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

52 references

Each of the 235 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. 40 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 Moerella pulchella (Lamarck, 1818)

Source
GBIF
Credit
manelor
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Tellina (Moerella) 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)