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Yoldiella

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2285533	https://www.gbif.org/species/2285533
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	16146	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16146

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Nuculanida : Yoldiidae : Yoldiella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Nuculanida : Sareptidae : Yoldiella

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Protobranchia	Pelseneer 1889
superorder	Nuculaniformii	Carter et al. 2000
order	Nuculanida
superfamily	Nuculanoidea	Adams and Adams 1858
family	Sareptidae	Adams 1860
genus	Yoldiella	Verrill & Bush 1897

Scientific Name

Yoldiella Verrill & Bush, 1897

Name Published In

Amer. J. Sci., 3: 55

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Yoldiella	subgenus	belongs to Yoldia	stated without evidence	Richards, 1962
Yoldiella	genus	belongs to Yoldiellinae	stated with evidence	Maxwell, 1992
Yoldiella	genus	belongs to Sareptidae	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Yoldiella	subgenus	belongs to Portlandia	stated without evidence	Schnetler, 2001
Yoldiella	genus	belongs to Nuculoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Yoldiella	genus	belongs to Nuculanidae	stated without evidence	Spencer et al., 2004
Yoldiella	genus	belongs to Yoldiidae	stated without evidence	Mikkelsen, 2006

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

facultatively mobile

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

deposit feeder

Ecospace Comments

ECOSPACE CODE: 533. LIFE HISTORY: IS, MA, UN, DU according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Leda oblata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Portlandia (Yoldiella) nielseni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Portlandia nielseni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella abyssicola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella abyssorum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella aethiopica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella africana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella alleni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella alluaudi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella americana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella annenkovae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella antarctica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella arariboia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella ardgowanica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella argentinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella artipica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella bernardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella biguttata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella bilanta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella biscayensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella blanda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella cadizensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella capensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella capsa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella cecinella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella chilenica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella clarkei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella cuniculi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella curta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella curupira species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella dautzenbergi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella derjugini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella dissimilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella ella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella enata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella exigua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella expansa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella extensa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella fabula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella folini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella fora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella frami species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella frigida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella gibbosula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella granula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella haasti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Yoldiella hamiltoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella hanna species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella hoylei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella incala species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella inconspicua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella indolens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella insculpta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella intermedia species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Yoldiella jeffreysi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella kaikonis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella karaka species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella kibi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella lapernoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella lenticula species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Yoldiella leonilda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella leurovata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	56.0 Ma Paleocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Yoldiella librata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella lucida species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Yoldiella malletioides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Yoldiella minuta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella mohakana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella nana species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Yoldiella nanula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella oblata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Yoldiella oblonga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella olutoroensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella orbicularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella orcia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella otekaikensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella ovata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella ovulum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella pachia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella paranapuaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella perplexa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella philippiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella powelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella profundorum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella propinqua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella pygmaea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella remensa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella retusa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella riograndensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella robusta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella sabrina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella semistriata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella siberutensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella similiris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella similis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella sinuosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella solidula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella sootryeni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella spitsbergensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella squamaeformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella stimulea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella striolata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella subcircularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella tamara species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella thaerella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella uawa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella valettei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella valorousae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella veletta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Yoldiella wareni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1897	Yoldiella Verrill and Bush
1962	Yoldia (Yoldiella) Richards p. 52
1992	Yoldiella Maxwell p. 58
2000	Yoldiella Coan et al. pp. 117, 118
2001	Portlandia (Yoldiella) Schnetler
2001	Yoldiella Todd
2002	Yoldiella Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Yoldiella Spencer et al.
2006	Yoldiella Mikkelsen

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Richards H. G. (1962) Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America, Transactions of the American Philosophocal Society 52 3, 1-142

Maxwell P. A. (1992) Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 65, 1-280

Coan E. V., Scott P. V., et al (2000) Bivalve seashells of western North America, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2, 1-764

Schnetler K. I. (2001) The Selandian (Paleocene) mollusc fauna from Copenhagen, Denmark: the Poul Harder 1920 collection, Geology of Denmark Survey Bulletin 37, 1-85

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of bivalves in the Panama Paleontology Project collections, [http://eusmilia.geology.uiowa.edu/database/bivalves/systemat/bivaltax.htm#list]

Spencer H. G., Willan R. C., et al (2004) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca described from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, [http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/index.html]

Mikkelsen P. M. (2006) Western Atlantic Bivalves [http://peet.amnh.org/Western_Atlantic_Bivalves.html]

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Karlsson, Anna (2004) Mollusker - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Vaught, K. C. / Abbott, Robert T. and Kenneth J. Boss, 1989: null. A classification of the living Mollusca. xii+195. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1306 Ledella Bushae War?n, 1978 is the type species of Ledella Verrill & Bush, 1897 (Mollusca, Bivalvia).Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42(2), 146-147 (1985) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Amer. J. Sci., (4) 3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Bouchet et al., 2001 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213. - via World Register of Marine Species

Verrill A.E. & Bush K.J. (1897). Revision of the genera of Ledidae and Nuculidae of the Atlantic coast of the United States. American Journal of Science. ser. 4, 3: 51-63. - via World Register of Marine Species

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