Tellina cumana
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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 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.
2 occurrences of Tellina cumana 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
2 occurrences- Miocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
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The named rock units Tellina cumana 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 cumana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tellina cumana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Artemis orbignyi1 site
- Barnea truncata1 site
- Buccinum callosum1 site
- Buccinum digitale1 site
- Bullia laevissima1 site
- Choromytilus meridionalis1 site
- Cristatopecten cristatum1 site
- Cyclocardia1 site
- Donax serra1 site
- Ficus conditus1 site
- Lentipecten1 site
- Loripes1 site
- Marginella capensis1 site
- Nassarius1 site
- Nassarius scopularcus1 site
- Paphia vetula1 site
- Pecten burdigalensis1 site
- Perna perna1 site
- Tapes corrugatus1 site
- Turritella bicingulata1 site
- Varicorbula gibba1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tellina cumana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy1
- Pleistocene shorelines in the Western Cape and South-West Africa1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Tellina cumana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 cumana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tellina cumana 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. (Costa 1829)