Tellina leana
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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 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
24 occurrences of Tellina leana on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
24 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
7 formations
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group10
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Nanjemoy Formation3
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation1
- Yegua Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Tellina leana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tellina leana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tellina leana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
464 taxa- Pachecoa15 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella13 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta13 sites
- Mesalia vetusta13 sites
- Naticidae13 sites
- Turritella13 sites
- Ancilla staminea11 sites
- Athleta petrosa11 sites
- Cadulus11 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus11 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis11 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis11 sites
- Gastropoda11 sites
- Retusa galba11 sites
- Bivalvia10 sites
- Calorhadia bella10 sites
- Eopleurotoma10 sites
- Hipponix10 sites
- Buccitriton texanum9 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata9 sites
- Corbula extenuata9 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella9 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) magnifica9 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Tellina leana, 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
5 references- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs10
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)7
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda4
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- New Eocene species from Alabama1
Each of the 24 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 content0
No picture of Tellina leana 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 leana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tellina leana 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.