Orionina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrachyleberididaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 774 ka.
18 occurrences of Orionina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
18 occurrences- Eocene6%
- Oligocene22%
- Miocene61%
- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene6%
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
6 formations
- Tubará Formation7
- Lares Limestone Formation4
- Brasso Formation3
- Caloosahatchee Formation1
- Yorktown Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- Aguada Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Orionina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Orionina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Orionina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
701 taxa- Loxoconcha13 sites
- Cytherella11 sites
- Bairdia9 sites
- Cativella9 sites
- Costa8 sites
- Caudites7 sites
- Cytheropteron7 sites
- Basslerites5 sites
- Cushmanidea5 sites
- Cytherelloidea5 sites
- Procythereis5 sites
- Puriana5 sites
- Aurila4 sites
- Jugosocythereis4 sites
- Macrocypris4 sites
- Mutilus4 sites
- Paracytheridea vandenboldi4 sites
- Quadracythere4 sites
- Xestoleberis4 sites
- Cyprideis3 sites
- Hermanites3 sites
- Kangarina3 sites
- Loxoconcha reticularis3 sites
- Neocaudites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Orionina, 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
6 references- Upper Miocene Ostracoda from the Tubará Formation (northern Colombia)7
- Middle Tertiary Ostracoda from northwestern Puerto Rico5
- Ostracoda of the Brasso Formation of Trinidad3
- Age and correlation of the Yorktown (Pliocene) and Croatan (Pliocene and Pleistocene) formations at the Lee Creek Mine1
- Contribution à l'étude des faunes abyssales : les Ostracodes paléogènes du Bassin des Bahamas, Atlantique Nord (DSDP, Leg 44)1
- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida1
Each of the 18 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 Orionina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Orionina 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 itTrachyleberididae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.