Transennella stimpsoni

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TransennellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Transennella
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Transennella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Transennella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
15 occurrences of Transennella stimpsoni 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
15 occurrences- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene87%
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
- Anastasia Formation5
- Fort Thompson Formation3
- Chowan RIver Formation2
- Waccamaw Formation2
- James City Formation1
- Horry Clay Formation1
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The named rock units Transennella stimpsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Transennella stimpsoni and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Transennella stimpsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Abra aequalis4 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima4 sites
- Olivella mutica4 sites
- Turbonilla4 sites
- Anadara aequicostata3 sites
- Angulus agilis3 sites
- Astarte concentrica3 sites
- Atilia3 sites
- Caryocorbula3 sites
- Crassinella3 sites
- Crassinella lunulata3 sites
- Crenella decussata3 sites
- Crepidula plana3 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata3 sites
- Diodora3 sites
- Diplodonta acclinis3 sites
- Ensis directus3 sites
- Glycymeris sloani3 sites
- Gouldia3 sites
- Leptopecten auroraensis3 sites
- Marevalvata tricarinata3 sites
- Nuculana acuta3 sites
- Paramya subovata3 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Transennella stimpsoni, 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- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions11
- Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine3
- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida1
Each of the 15 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 content2

Picture of Transennella stimpsoni
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Transennella stimpsoni · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:283508
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTransennella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1902