Fordilla troyensis

C.D. Walcott · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FordillaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Fordilla
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fordilla
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Fordilla
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Fordillidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fordillida
Time the record covers
At least 700 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 515.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 509.7 Mya.
5 occurrences of Fordilla troyensis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
5 occurrences- Cambrian100%
These 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
- Fosters Point Formation · Bonavista Group1
- Bastion Formation1
- Tyuser Formation1
- Aftenstjernesø Fjord Formation · Brønlund Fjord Group1
- Emyaksin Formation1
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The named rock units Fordilla troyensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fordilla troyensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Fordilla troyensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Chancelloria3 sites
- Allatheca degeeri2 sites
- Orthothecida2 sites
- Triplicatella2 sites
- Aetholicopalla adnata1 site
- Albrunnicola1 site
- Aldanella attleborensis1 site
- Botsfordia caelata1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Burithes elongatus1 site
- Camenella baltica1 site
- Capitoconus nana1 site
- Cassitella baculata1 site
- Chancelloriidae1 site
- Coleoloides typicalis1 site
- Coleolus1 site
- Conotheca1 site
- Conotheca australiensis1 site
- Conotheca circumflexa1 site
- Conotheca mammilata1 site
- Costatheca clinisepta1 site
- Craniopsidae1 site
- Cupitheca holocyclata1 site
- Delgadella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Fordilla troyensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
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
5 references- An early Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Emyaksin Formation, northern Siberia1
- Mollusc fauna of the Early Cambrian Bastion Formation of North-East Greenland1
- The earliest bivalves and their Ordovician descendants1
- Upper Precambrian through Lower Cambrian of Cape Breton Island: faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision1
- Fordillidae (Bivalvia) from the Lower Paleozoic of the Siberian Platform1
Each of the 5 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Fordilla troyensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- C.D. Walcott
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fordilla troyensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itFordilla through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1881