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Tellinidae

Tellinidae

Overview

Tellinidae Blainville, 1814

Common Name: Tellin Clams

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Tellins have an elongated thin shell where modern tellins often vary in pastel coloration (yellow, pink, orange). These clams burrow deep into softer sediments of the ocean bottom, using long siphons to reach the sediment surface.

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Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile (burrow)

        FEEDING MODE: Deposit Feeder

        HABITAT: Infaunal

Sources:

Cox, L. R. et al. 1969. Bivalvia, in R. C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N, Mollusca 6, Volume 2. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 1224 pp.


Genera of Tellinidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway