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Ameritella texana (Dall 1900)

ecomorphological guild

Paleobiology Database
infaunal
URI: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/Infaunal

Definition: Benthic animals which live within the seabed.

Attribution: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/wiki/Traits:Infaunal

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(adult)

extinction status

Paleobiology Database
extant
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant

Definition: This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.

Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon

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first appearance

Paleobiology Database
pliocene epoch
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Pliocene

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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Paleobiology Database

5.333 million years ago

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last appearance

Paleobiology Database
holocene epoch
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Holocene

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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motility

Paleobiology Database
facultatively mobile
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/facultativelyMobile

Definition: Organisms that can change location but do so infrequently, e.g., crinoids, some infaunal bivalves.

Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html

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(adult)

number of fossil occurrences

Paleobiology Database

32

trophic guild

Paleobiology Database
deposit feeder
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/depositFeeder

Definition: an organism that eats particulate organic material in or on sediments.

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