Teredina

Teredina Temporal range: Late Cretaceous – late Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Myida
Family:	Teredinidae
Genus:	†Teredina Lamarck, 1818
Species[1]
†Teredina annulata O. Boettger, 1875 †Teredina gibberosa Staadt, 1913 †Teredina oweni Deshayes, 1856 †Teredina personata (Lamarck, 1806) †Teredina chilensis R. A. Philippi, 1887 (uncertain/unassessed)

Teredina is an extinct genus of fossil bivalve mollusc that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the late Pliocene in Asia, Europe, and North America.^[2]

Teredina shells consist of 2 short, hooked valves with a pair of furrows and each valve with transverse ridges.^[3] The overall body was long and clud-shaped. Teredina used the ridges on each valve to bore into driftwood by rocking back and forth; its long body shape allowed for large intestines for it to carry bacteria capable of breaking down the cellulose in the wood.^[3] Petrified drift wood with Teridina burrows can be found in the Cretaceous rocks of Vancouver Island.^[3]

• Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 111)

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