Tonganaella perna
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TonganaellaPBDB
- 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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
8 occurrences of Tonganaella perna on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene25%
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
4 formations
- Herschell Limestone Formation2
- Dampier Limestone Formation1
- Bredasdorp Formation1
- Alexandria Formation1
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The named rock units Tonganaella perna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tonganaella perna and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tonganaella perna and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
151 taxa- Brachidontes ustulatus4 sites
- Fragum erugatum4 sites
- Clypeomorus bifasciata3 sites
- Dosinia3 sites
- Fragum3 sites
- Rhinoclavis fasciata3 sites
- Thalotia3 sites
- Acrosterigma2 sites
- Arca trapezia2 sites
- Batillaria2 sites
- Bembicium auratum2 sites
- Callista planatella2 sites
- Circe2 sites
- Circe (Circe) scripta2 sites
- Circe lenticularis2 sites
- Dendostrea folium2 sites
- Diala lauta2 sites
- Diplodonta2 sites
- Dosinia sculpta2 sites
- Elachorbis2 sites
- Epicodakia2 sites
- Euchelus atratus2 sites
- Fragum unedo2 sites
- Katelysia scalarina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tonganaella perna, 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
6 references- Guidebook to the geology of Rottnest Island2
- The Tertiary limestone of the southern coastal regions of Cape Province, South Africa2
- Pleistocene mollusc assemblage in the slightly raised atoll lagoon of Niau (Tuamotu, French Polynesia)1
- Cenozoic Molluscs and Echinoids of Barrow Island, Western Australia1
- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia1
- A Pleistocene molluscan fauna with Anadara trapezia (Deshayes) (Bivalvia: Arcoida) from the Dampier Limestone of Shark Bay, Western Australia1
Each of the 8 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 Tonganaella perna was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Tonganaella perna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tonganaella perna 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 itTonganaella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spengler 1798)