Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Full reference: B. L. Clark and J. W. Durham. 1946. Eocene Faunas from the Department of Bolivar, Colombia. Geological Society of America Memoir 16:1-126
Belongs to Tellina (Moerella) according to B. L. Clark and J. W. Durham 1946
Sister taxa: Moerella (Scissula), Moerella calpix, Moerella declivis, Moerella dupliniana, Moerella macilenta, Moerella quasimacoma, Moerella securiclata, Moerella verdevilla, Tellina (Moerella) acalypta, Tellina (Moerella) acloneta, Tellina (Moerella) acosmita, Tellina (Moerella) agria, Tellina (Moerella) aldrichi, Tellina (Moerella) amianta, Tellina (Moerella) cloneta, Tellina (Moerella) ctenota, Tellina (Moerella) hypolispa, Tellina (Moerella) indifferens, Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis, Tellina (Moerella) paraguanensis, Tellina (Moerella) petropolitana, Tellina (Moerella) piesa, Tellina (Moerella) quirosana, Tellina (Moerella) subdonacialis, Tellina (Moerella) subtrigona, Tellina (Moerella) tabogensis
Type specimen: UCMP 34921, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Tellina (Moerella) colomnbiana in the database
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