Tellinimera

Tellinimera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TellininaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Tellinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 139 of 141 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 141 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 141 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 141 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 141 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 141 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 15 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 53 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 53 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72.2 Mya11.63 Mya85 Mya4 Mya

141 occurrences of Tellinimera on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

141 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

15 formations

Providence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.15°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WCorsicana Marl — 32.53°N, 96.27°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.04°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WPeedee — 33.99°N, 79.52°WPeedee — 33.86°N, 79.39°WPeedee — 35.77°N, 78.64°WEscondido — 29.29°N, 98.97°WEscondido — 29.39°N, 99.02°WEscondido — 28.73°N, 100.48°WEscondido — 28.25°N, 100.27°WPawkowki — 49.10°N, 111.15°WPawkowki — 49.04°N, 111.21°WPawkowki — 49.10°N, 111.21°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WChiwapa — 34.19°N, 88.98°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WSandy Hook — 40.40°N, 74.12°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WPrince Creek — 70.05°N, 151.63°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°W

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The named rock units Tellinimera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tellinimera and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tellinimera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

574 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Tellinimera, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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 141 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 Tellinimera

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Tellinimera 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1860