Cathaysiorthidae

No picture of Cathaysiorthidae 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 Cathaysiorthidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthoideaPBDB
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 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 20 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 16 of 20 occurrencesSilurian445–445 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 3 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 3 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 3 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 3 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443.1 Mya438.6 Mya445.7 Mya432.4 Mya

20 occurrences of Cathaysiorthidae on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

20 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

5 formations

Zhangwan — 33.08°N, 111.45°EAnji — 29.50°N, 118.94°EAnji — 28.71°N, 118.35°EShiyang — 28.71°N, 118.40°EWestfield Sandstone — 42.63°S, 146.50°EEl Castro — 43.63°N, 5.83°W

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The named rock units Cathaysiorthidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cathaysiorthidae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cathaysiorthidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Cathaysiorthidae, 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

4 references

Each of the 20 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 content0

No picture of Cathaysiorthidae 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 Cathaysiorthidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cathaysiorthidae 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 itOrthoidea through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rong et al. 2013