Tellina (Tellinella) tenuilineata

Tellina tenuilineata Li, 1930, a relative of Tellina (Tellinella) tenuilineata — not Tellina (Tellinella) tenuilineata itself

Not Tellina (Tellinella) tenuilineata. This is Tellina tenuilineata Li, 1930, 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
Tellina (Tellinella)PBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellina (Tellinella)
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Tellina (Tellinella)
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellina (Tellinella)
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 4.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27.8 Mya22.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Tellina (Tellinella) tenuilineata on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

5 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

Temblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 35.42°N, 119.85°WTemblor — 35.40°N, 119.81°W

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The named rock units Tellina (Tellinella) tenuilineata 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 (Tellinella) tenuilineata and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Tellina (Tellinella) tenuilineata and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tellina (Tellinella) tenuilineata, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 tenuilineata Li, 1930

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 (Tellinella) through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1918)