Cathaysiorthis yushanensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CathaysiorthisPBDB
- 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 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 440.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Cathaysiorthis yushanensis 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
7 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cathaysiorthis yushanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cathaysiorthis yushanensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cathaysiorthis yushanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Leptaena rugosa7 sites
- Eospirigerina putilla6 sites
- Epitomyonia6 sites
- Fardenia (Fardenia) flexa6 sites
- Katastrophomena zheganensis6 sites
- Levenea llandoveriana6 sites
- Glyptorthis5 sites
- Brevilamnulella kjerulfi4 sites
- Mendacella4 sites
- Paracraniops pararius4 sites
- Eospirifer (Eospirifer) eosinensis3 sites
- Pseudolingula3 sites
- Sulcatospira3 sites
- Alispira2 sites
- Cathaysiorthidae2 sites
- Deliella2 sites
- Eopholidostrophia (Megapholidostrophia)2 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) boucoti2 sites
- Hesperorthis2 sites
- Paracraniops2 sites
- Rostricellula2 sites
- Salopina2 sites
- Skenidioides2 sites
- Thebesia thebesensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cathaysiorthis yushanensis, 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 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cathaysiorthis yushanensis 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 Cathaysiorthis yushanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cathaysiorthis yushanensis 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 itCathaysiorthis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zeng and Hu 1997)