Tellinimera scitula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TellinimeraPBDB
- 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.
9 occurrences of Tellinimera scitula 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
9 occurrences- Late Cretaceous89%
- Miocene11%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Tellinimera scitula 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.
Tellinimera scitula and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tellinimera scitula and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Cymbophora warrenana7 sites
- Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana7 sites
- Tancredia americana5 sites
- Crenella elegantula4 sites
- Cucullaea nebrascensis4 sites
- Cuspidaria ventricosa4 sites
- Glossus moreauensis4 sites
- Goniomya americana4 sites
- Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) sulcatinus4 sites
- Malletia evansi4 sites
- Modiolus galpinianus4 sites
- Phelopteria linguaeformis4 sites
- Protocardia subquadrata4 sites
- Pseudoptera subtortuosa4 sites
- Anomia gryphorhyncha3 sites
- Dosiniopsis deweyi3 sites
- Limopsis striatopunctatus3 sites
- Modiolus meeki3 sites
- Nucula cancellata3 sites
- Nuculana (Jupiteria) scitula3 sites
- Nuculana (Nuculana) grandensis3 sites
- Nymphalucina occidentalis3 sites
- Periploma subgracile3 sites
- Solemya subplicata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Tellinimera scitula, 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
4 references- Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group4
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages2
- Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming2
- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils1
Each of the 9 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Tellinimera scitula 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 Tellinimera scitula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tellinimera scitula was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTellinimera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Hayden 1856)