Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Alternative combination: Tellina lincolnensis
Full reference: C. E. Weaver. 1916. Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington. University of Washington Publications in Geology 1(1):1-67
Belongs to Tellina (Moerella) according to W. L. Effinger 1938
See also Durham 1944 and Weaver 1916
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) ctenota, Tellina (Moerella) hypolispa, Tellina (Moerella) indifferens, 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: Its type locality is Galvin Station, which is in a Chattian offshore sandstone in the Lincoln Creek Formation of Washington
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (1: Washington collection)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (14: Oregon, Washington)
Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence
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