Tellina balaustina

Tellina balaustina Linnaeus, 1758, a relative of Tellina balaustina — not Tellina balaustina itself

Not Tellina balaustina. This is Tellina balaustina Linnaeus, 1758, a relative — both are Tellinidae.

via GBIF · CC0 · 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, for Tellina
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Tellina
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.7–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–742 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11.63 Mya2.58 Mya14.3 Mya274 ka

3 occurrences of Tellina balaustina on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 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

Coralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°E

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The named rock units Tellina balaustina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tellina balaustina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tellina balaustina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

317 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tellina balaustina, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 balaustina Linnaeus, 1758

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
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 through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1767