Tellurimya
No picture of Tellurimya 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 Tellurimya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratomyopsidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Megalodontoidea
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Megalodontoidea
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Megalodontoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Tellurimya on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
11 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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 Tellurimya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tellurimya and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Tellurimya and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Pholadomya lirata3 sites
- Chlamys curvivarians2 sites
- Coxitrigonia brevicostata2 sites
- Eopecten velatus2 sites
- Mactromyopsis2 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus)2 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana2 sites
- Nicaniella (Nicaniella)2 sites
- Nucula (Palaeonucula) cuneiformis2 sites
- Plagiostoma2 sites
- Reineckeia2 sites
- Bakevellia1 site
- Bositra buchi1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Camptonectes (Camptonectes)1 site
- Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus1 site
- Ceratomya1 site
- Ceratomyopsis somaliensis1 site
- Chlamys (Chlamys)1 site
- Chlamys (Radulopecten)1 site
- Choffatia1 site
- Coelastarte1 site
- Corbula daghaniensis1 site
- Eligmus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Tellurimya, 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- The Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen6
- Habo Beds near Ler (Kutch): Pt. 3 - Biostratigraphy of the beds on the east of Ler4
- Jurassic bivalves of Gebel Maghara, North Sinai, Egypt1
Each of the 11 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 Tellurimya 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 Tellurimya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tellurimya 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCeratomyopsidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1964