Tellina (Saulella) undulifera

Tellina undulifera (Gabb, 1869), a relative of Tellina (Saulella) undulifera — not Tellina (Saulella) undulifera itself

Not Tellina (Saulella) undulifera. This is Tellina undulifera (Gabb, 1869), a relative.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Tellina (Saulella)PBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellina
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Tellina
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPaleocene — about 30 of 33 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 33 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya56 Mya66.5 Mya47.6 Mya

33 occurrences of Tellina (Saulella) undulifera 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

33 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

3 formations

Santa Susana — 34.05°N, 118.63°WSanta Susana — 34.31°N, 118.68°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.73°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.79°WMartinez — 38.06°N, 122.24°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.21°N, 121.99°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.61°WSimi — 38.02°N, 122.13°W

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The named rock units Tellina (Saulella) undulifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tellina (Saulella) undulifera and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Tellina (Saulella) undulifera and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

193 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Tellina (Saulella) undulifera, 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

10 references

Each of the 33 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Tellina undulifera (Gabb, 1869)

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 itTellina (Saulella) through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1869)