Yoldia cupressensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- YoldiaPBDB
- 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 most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Yoldia cupressensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Yoldia cupressensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Yoldia cupressensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Yoldia cupressensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Cymbophora warrenana3 sites
- Nucula planomarginata3 sites
- Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana3 sites
- Protocardia subquadrata2 sites
- Tenuipteria fibrosa2 sites
- Acanthoscaphites1 site
- Baculites baculus1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Corbula sprouli1 site
- Hoploscaphites1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Leptocardia borealis1 site
- Ostrea glabra1 site
- Panope mclearni1 site
- Pholadomya1 site
- Pholadomya cupressensis1 site
- Protocardia1 site
- Pseudoptera subtortuosa1 site
- Tancredia americana cupressensis1 site
- Tellina1 site
- Tellina cupressensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Yoldia cupressensis, 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
2 references- Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group2
- USGS Locality Compendium1
Each of the 3 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 Yoldia cupressensis 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 Yoldia cupressensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Yoldia cupressensis 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 itYoldia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Russell and Landes 1937