Barbarorthis

Barbarorthis

GALR · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
HesperorthidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.9 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 31 of 31 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 31 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449.5 Mya445.2 Mya450.4 Mya442.6 Mya

31 occurrences of Barbarorthis 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

31 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

6 formations

Vaureal — 49.81°N, 64.43°WVaureal — 49.81°N, 64.35°WVaureal — 49.63°N, 63.20°WVaureal — 49.76°N, 63.64°WVaureal — 49.63°N, 63.78°WVaureal — 49.73°N, 63.83°WVaureal — 49.80°N, 63.89°WKuldiga — 57.28°N, 25.41°EKuldiga — 56.78°N, 21.86°EKuldiga — 56.46°N, 26.03°EKuldiga — 56.44°N, 21.61°EEllis Bay — 49.81°N, 64.01°WEllis Bay — 49.81°N, 64.43°WEllis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WMoe — 59.26°N, 26.00°EMoe — 59.02°N, 23.14°EMoe — 59.03°N, 23.65°EKilley Bridge — 54.60°N, 6.88°WKuldiga — 57.94°N, 25.74°E

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The named rock units Barbarorthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Barbarorthis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Barbarorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Barbarorthis, 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

7 references

Each of the 31 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 content1

Picture of Barbarorthis

Source
GBIF
Credit
GALR
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Barbarorthis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHesperorthidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Opik 1934