Eurytellina solitaria
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| Eurytellina solitaria Temporal range: | |
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| Holotype from Auckland War Memorial Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Cardiida |
| Family: | Tellinidae |
| Genus: | Eurytellina |
| Species: | E. solitaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Eurytellina solitaria A. W. B. Powell, 1931 | |
Eurytellina solitaria is a species of bivalve, a marine mollusc in the family Tellinidae.[1] Fossils of the species date to the Waipipian stage (3.70 million years ago) of the late Pliocene in New Zealand, and are only known from fossil deposits from the coast of the South Taranaki Bight near Hāwera.
In the original description, Powell described the species as follows:
Shell of moderate size, compressed and elongate-oval in outline. Umbones at the posterior three-eighths. Rostrum rounded, situated at about half the height; with obsolete flexure, but having a narrow flattened area defined by a slight ridge, which runs from the umbo to the base of the rostrum. Sculpture of fine raised concentric threads, three to five per millimetre. Hinge badly damaged, but showing definite traces of a posterior lateral.[2]
The holotype of the species has a height of 15 mm (0.59 in), a length of 26.5 mm (1.04 in), and a thickness of 3.0 mm (0.12 in) for a single valve.[2]
