Diplodonta orbella

Diplodonta orbella

Gould, 1851 · CC0 · 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
Also called
orb diplodonPBDB
Sits inside
DiplodontaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Diplodonta
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Diplodonta
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Diplodonta
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesMiocene — about 23 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 44 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 20 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Diplodonta orbella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

44 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

12 formations

Vaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.65°N, 117.81°WVaqueros — 33.70°N, 117.71°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.84°WVaqueros — 34.62°N, 120.15°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.24°N, 120.09°WVaqueros — 35.34°N, 120.13°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.25°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WKuluvenskaya — 58.50°N, 159.17°EAleksandrovskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°ESertunayskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°ESan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°W

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The named rock units Diplodonta orbella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diplodonta orbella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Diplodonta orbella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,335 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Diplodonta orbella, 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

21 references

Each of the 44 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. 9 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 content1

Picture of Diplodonta orbella

Credit
Gould, 1851
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplodonta orbella 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 itDiplodonta through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1851)