Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima

Yoldia glaberrima (von Münster, 1837), a relative of Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima — not Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima itself

Not Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima. This is Yoldia glaberrima (von Münster, 1837), a relative — both are Nuculidae.

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
Yoldia (Yoldia)PBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Yoldia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Yoldia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Yoldia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Yoldiidae

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 5 of 54 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 49 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 54 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.7–7.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.9–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.04 Mya11.63 Mya27.8 Mya4.8 Mya

54 occurrences of Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

54 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

9 formations

Berada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EVejle Fjord — 55.18°N, 11.88°EVejle Fjord — 56.00°N, 9.25°EGram — 55.31°N, 9.06°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EBrejning Clay — 56.17°N, 9.75°EBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°EBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°E

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The named rock units Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima and its relatives

Miocene

Where Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

682 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima, 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

11 references

Each of the 54 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 Yoldia glaberrima (von Münster, 1837)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Yoldia myalis · USNM:IZ:USNM 95801

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Münster 1837)