Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae

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

Belongs to Tellina (Moerella) according to J. R. Gardner 1947

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) colomnbiana, Tellina (Moerella) hypolispa, Tellina (Moerella) indifferens, Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis, Tellina (Moerella) obrupta, Tellina (Moerella) paraguanensis, Tellina (Moerella) petropolitana, Tellina (Moerella) piesa, Tellina (Moerella) quirosana, Tellina (Moerella) subdonacialis, Tellina (Moerella) subtrigona, Tellina (Moerella) tabogensis

Type specimen: USNM 353916, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 2211 - Alum Bluff, lower bed, which is in a Burdigalian marine marl/sandstone in the Chipola Formation of Florida.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at USGS Loc. 2211 - Alum Bluff, lower bed

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