Orthoyoldia

Orthoyoldia

Uncredited · 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
NuculanidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 98 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 98 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 87 of 98 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 98 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 98 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 98 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 98 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 9 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 9 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 16 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 36 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61.66 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

98 occurrences of Orthoyoldia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

98 occurrences

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

20 formations

Cook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.38°WCook Mountain — 30.18°N, 96.94°WCook Mountain — 31.93°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 32.52°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCook Mountain — 29.99°N, 97.09°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WStone City — 30.63°N, 96.54°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.57°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WMcBean — 33.50°N, 80.89°WMcBean — 33.60°N, 80.65°WMcBean — 33.56°N, 80.09°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.82°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 32.87°N, 93.99°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.25°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WNanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WMoodys Branch — 31.51°N, 87.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 32.28°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WWhite Bluff — 34.42°N, 92.12°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WLogansport — 31.57°N, 93.55°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WYegua — 30.24°N, 96.99°WYegua — 26.43°N, 99.15°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WCabatuan — 10.86°N, 122.50°ESakasagawa — 44.36°N, 141.70°EClayton — 35.23°N, 88.83°WHalls Summit — 31.74°N, 93.40°W

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The named rock units Orthoyoldia 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.

Orthoyoldia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Orthoyoldia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,362 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Orthoyoldia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

18 references

Each of the 98 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Orthoyoldia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Orthoyoldia liorhina · USNM:IZ:USNM 95797

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 itNuculanidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Verrill 1897)