Yidunella yunnanensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- YidunellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 5.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
6 occurrences of Yidunella yunnanensis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
6 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Yidunella yunnanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Yidunella yunnanensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Yidunella yunnanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Amphiclina intermedia2 sites
- Amphiclinodonta1 site
- Aulacothyropsis deqinica1 site
- Aulacothyropsis pentagonalis1 site
- Costispiriferina asiatica1 site
- Koninckina alata1 site
- Laballa suessi1 site
- Lobothyris1 site
- Oxycolpella elongata1 site
- Oxytomidae1 site
- Praecubanothyris ovalis1 site
- Rimirhynchopsis1 site
- Sacothyris sinosa1 site
- Sinucosta emmrichi1 site
- Triadithyris qabdoensis1 site
- Zugmayerella yueliangpingica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Yidunella yunnanensis, 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
3 references- Upper Triassic brachiopod fauna from the area in the east of Hengduan Mountain, western Yunnan3
- Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud2
- The Mesozoic brachiopods of Xizang1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Yidunella yunnanensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Yidunella yunnanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Yidunella yunnanensis 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 itYidunella through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jin and Fang 1977)