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Tellinoidea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	90863	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=90863

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cardiida : Tellinoidea

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	(Blainville 1814)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tellinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Teleodesmacea	stated without evidence	Glenn, 1904
Tellinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Veneroida	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Tellinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Veneroida	stated without evidence	Squires, 1984
Tellinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Veneroida	stated with evidence	Ward and Blackwelder, 1987
Tellinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Veneroida	stated without evidence	Squires, 1987
Tellinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Veneroida	stated with evidence	Ward, 1992
Tellinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Veneroida	stated without evidence	Coan et al., 2000
Tellinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Veneroida	stated with evidence	Bieler and Mikkelsen, 2006
Tellinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Veneroida	implied	Nevesskaja, 2009
Tellinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Venerida	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Tellinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Cardioidei	stated with evidence	Carter et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

892

Extant Size (PBDB)

341 (38%)

First Recorded Appearance

331 - 323 Ma
Carboniferous

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Tellinoidea)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

deposit feeder (based on Tellinoidea)

Ecospace Comments

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

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Donacidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		311	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Icanotiidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	145 Ma Late Jurassic	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Psammobiidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		382	151 Ma Late Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Quenstedtiidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		67	199 Ma Early Jurassic	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Semelidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1,074	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Solecurtidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		301	331 Ma Carboniferous	0 Ma Extant
Sowerbyidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		38	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Tancrediidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		342	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Tellinidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Tellin Clam	4,932	260 Ma Permian	0 Ma Extant
Unicardiopsidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1814	Tellinacea Blainville
1904	Tellinacea Glenn p. 291
1931	Tellinacea Olsson p. 63
1980	Tellinacea Vokes p. 141
1984	Tellinacea Squires p. 50
1987	Tellinacea Squires p. 68
1987	Tellinacea Ward and Blackwelder p. 130
1989	Tellinacea Saul p. 191

Year	Name and Author
1992	Tellinoidea Ward p. 96
2000	Tellinoidea Coan et al. pp. 258, 259
2006	Tellinoidea Bieler and Mikkelsen p. 232
2006	Tellinoidea Rosenberg et al.
2009	Tellinoidea Nevesskaja
2010	Tellinoidea Bouchet et al.
2011	Tellinoidea Carter et al. p. 16

References

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

Glenn L. C. (1904) Pelecypoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 274-401

Olsson A. A. (1931) Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene, Bulletins of American Paleontology 17 63

Squires R. L. (1984) Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350, 1-76

Squires R. L. (1987) Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 388, 1-93

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Ward L. W. (1992) Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America, Virginia Museum of Natural History 2

Coan E. V., Scott P. V., et al (2000) Bivalve seashells of western North America, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2, 1-764

Bieler R., Mikkelsen P. M. (2006) Bivalvia - a look at the branches, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148, 223-235

Rosenberg G., Ponder W., et al (2006) A Biotic Database of Indo-Pacific Marine Mollusks doi:http://data.acnatsci.org/obis

Nevesskaja L. A. (2009) Principles of Systematics and the System of Bivalves, Paleontological Journal 43 1, 1-11 doi:10.1134/S0031030109010018

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Carter J. G., Altaba C. R., et al (2011) A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca), University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions 4, 1-47

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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