Aldingia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KingeninaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Kingenidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Kingenidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Kingenidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 20.45 Mya.
26 occurrences of Aldingia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
26 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
5 formations
- Wilson Bluff Formation14
- Toolinna Limestone Formation4
- Werillup Formation · Plantagenet Group4
- Wilson Bluff Limestone Formation2
- Abrakurrie Limestone Formation2
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The named rock units Aldingia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aldingia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aldingia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Liothyrella subcarnea9 sites
- Liothyrella bulbosa6 sites
- Epacrothyris pectoralis5 sites
- Aliquantula insolita4 sites
- Magadinella woodsiana4 sites
- Terebratulina christopheri4 sites
- Victorithyris garibaldiana4 sites
- Victorithyris tateana4 sites
- Diedrothyris johnstoniana3 sites
- Murravia triangularis3 sites
- Westralicrania zenobiae3 sites
- Aliquantula tapirina2 sites
- Liothyrella labiata2 sites
- Diedrothyris plicata1 site
- Epacrothyris sufflata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Aldingia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of the Bremer and Eucla Basins, southwest Western Australia22
- Geology of the Western Australian part of the Eucla basin4
Each of the 26 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Aldingia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aldingia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aldingia was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itKingeninae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.