Oleneothyris harlani

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OleneothyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
7 occurrences of Oleneothyris harlani on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
7 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
3 formations
- Hornerstown Formation · Rancocas Group5
- Vincentown Formation1
- Moseley Creek Formation · Beaufort Group1
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The named rock units Oleneothyris harlani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oleneothyris harlani and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Oleneothyris harlani and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
164 taxa- Cucullaea3 sites
- Chondrichthyes2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Dyrosauridae2 sites
- Etea2 sites
- Flabellum mortoni2 sites
- Gryphaeostrea vomer2 sites
- Hexanchus2 sites
- Odontaspis2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Peronidella dichotoma2 sites
- Pitar2 sites
- <Callianassid>1 site
- Acrodus1 site
- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Amtaaguar crassus1 site
- Animalia1 site
- Anomoeodus phaseolus1 site
- Arca1 site
- Argyrotheca beecheri1 site
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)1 site
- Atractosteus1 site
- Aturia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Oleneothyris harlani, 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
4 references- The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops)4
- Faunal changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary in the Atlantic coastal plain of New Jersey: restructuring the marine community after the K-T mass-extinction event1
- Macrofossils from the Vincentown Formation (Paleocene) of New Jersey1
- Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary1
Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Oleneothyris harlani
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itOleneothyris through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1829)