Aporthophyla tianjingshanensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AporthophylaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
5 occurrences of Aporthophyla tianjingshanensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Aporthophyla tianjingshanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aporthophyla tianjingshanensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Aporthophyla tianjingshanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Panderodus nogami2 sites
- Chaohuceras1 site
- Cystostroma1 site
- Hardmanoceras chrysanthimum1 site
- Hoyoceras1 site
- Juanognathus1 site
- Labechia variabilis1 site
- Manchuroceras nakamense1 site
- Wutinoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Aporthophyla tianjingshanensis, 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- Biogeographic significance of Ordovician brachiopods from Thailand and Malaysia4
- Classification and review of the brachiopod superfamily Plectambonitacea1
Each of the 5 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
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAporthophyla through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fu 1982