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Tellina (Moerella)

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	95014	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=95014

Rank

subgenus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cardiida : Tellinidae : Tellina : Tellina (Moerella)

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Heteroconchia
-	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Cardiida	Ferussac 1822
suborder	Cardiidina	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioidei	Ferussac 1822
superfamily	Tellinoidea
family	Tellinidae	Blainville 1814
genus	Tellina	Linnaeus 1758
subgenus	Tellina (Moerella)	(Fischer 1887)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tellina (Moerella)	subgenus	belongs to Tellina	stated without evidence	Oldroyd, 1925
Tellina (Moerella)	subgenus	belongs to Tellina	stated with evidence	Vredenburg, 1928
Tellina (Moerella)	subgenus	belongs to Tellina	stated without evidence	Durham, 1944
Tellina (Moerella)	subgenus	belongs to Tellina	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1947
Tellina (Moerella)	genus	belongs to Tellininae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Tellina (Moerella)	genus	belongs to Veneroida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Tellina (Moerella)	subgenus	belongs to Tellina	stated with evidence	Coan and Valentich-Scott, 2012
Tellina (Moerella)	genus	belongs to Tellinidae	stated without evidence	Hickman, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

9 (27%)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 61.6 Ma
Paleocene

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Tellina (Moerella))

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

deposit feeder (based on Tellina (Moerella))

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: IS, MA, UN, DS according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Tellinidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. R. Gardner. 1947. The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (142A-H):1-709

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Moerella (Scissula) subgenus	listed (PBDB)	24	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Moerella calpix ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Moerella declivis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	7	23.0 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Moerella dupliniana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	13	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Moerella macilenta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	9	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Moerella quasimacoma ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	18	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Moerella securiclata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Moerella verdevilla ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Tellina (Moerella) acalypta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Tellina (Moerella) acloneta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Tellina (Moerella) acosmita ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Tellina (Moerella) agria ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Tellina (Moerella) aldrichi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Tellina (Moerella) amianta species	listed (PBDB)	2	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Tellina (Moerella) carpenteri species	listed (PBDB)	4	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Tellina (Moerella) cloneta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Tellina (Moerella) colomnbiana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Tellina (Moerella) ctenota ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Tellina (Moerella) hypolispa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Tellina (Moerella) indifferens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	13	47.8 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Tellina (Moerella) paraguanensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Tellina (Moerella) petropolitana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Tellina (Moerella) piesa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	17	13.8 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene
Tellina (Moerella) quirosana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Tellina (Moerella) subdonacialis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Tellina (Moerella) subtrigona species	listed (PBDB)	1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Tellina (Moerella) tabogensis species	listed (PBDB)	1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1887	Moerella Fischer p. 1147
1925	Tellina (Moerella) Oldroyd p. 6
1928	Tellina (Moerella) Vredenburg p. 459
1943	Tellina (Moerella) Gardner p. 94
1944	Tellina (Moerella) Durham p. 149
1947	Tellina (Moerella) Gardner p. 195

Year	Name and Author
1980	Moerella Vokes p. 143
2002	Moerella Sepkoski, Jr.
2012	Tellina (Moerella) Coan and Valentich-Scott p. 647
2015	Moerella Hickman p. 25
2020	Tellina (Moerella) Hendy

References

Gardner J. R. (1947) The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 142A-H, 1-709

Oldroyd T. S. (1925) The fossils of the Lower San Pedro fauna of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, California, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 65 2535, 1-39 doi:10.5479/si.00963801.65-2535.1

Vredenburg E. (1928) Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50 2, 351-506

Gardner J. A. (1943) Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199 A

Durham J. W. (1944) Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27, 101 -212

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Coan E. V., Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru, Santa Barbara museum of Natural history monographs 6, 1-1258

Hickman C. S. (2015) Paleogene marine bivalves of the deep-water Keasey Formation in Oregon, Part III: The heteroconchs, PaleoBios 32, 1-44

Hendy A. J. W. (2019) Unpublished taxonomic backbone for Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic (EPICC) Thematic Collections Network

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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