Bowanorthis fragilis
No picture of Bowanorthis fragilis 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 Bowanorthis fragilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BowanorthisPBDB
- 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 most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.3 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Bowanorthis fragilis 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
8 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
5 formations
- Billabong Creek Limestone Formation2
- Daylesford Limestone Formation2
- Quondong Limestone Formation2
- Vandon Limestone Formation · Cliefden Caves Limestone Group1
- Regans Creek Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Bowanorthis fragilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bowanorthis fragilis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bowanorthis fragilis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Zygospira8 sites
- Australispira6 sites
- Didymelasma5 sites
- Mabella halis5 sites
- Sowerbyites isotes5 sites
- Doleroides mixticius4 sites
- Eridorthis australis4 sites
- Paromalomena zheni4 sites
- Protozyga definitiva4 sites
- Ptychopleurella decretoria4 sites
- Quondongia alitis4 sites
- Shlyginia rectangularis4 sites
- Trigrammaria ampla4 sites
- Chaganella speciosa3 sites
- Coccoseris3 sites
- Dinorthis hadra3 sites
- Ecclimadictyon3 sites
- Hesperorthis barbata3 sites
- Hillophyllum3 sites
- Molongcola variabilis3 sites
- Paraonychoplecia inversa3 sites
- Parastrophina3 sites
- Parkesolithus3 sites
- Phaceloorthis decoris3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Bowanorthis fragilis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Bowanorthis fragilis 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 Bowanorthis fragilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bowanorthis fragilis 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 itBowanorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Percival 1991