Clorinda

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClorindinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 440.8 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
199 occurrences of Clorinda 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
199 occurrencesThese 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
67 formations
- Attawapiskat Formation39
- Jupiter Formation · Anticosti Group11
- Irondequoit Formation · Clinton Group9
- Cape Phillips Formation8
- Riga Formation7
- Daleje-Třebotov Formation4
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The named rock units Clorinda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Clorinda and its relatives
SilurianWhere Clorinda and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
1,587 taxa- Atrypa reticularis40 sites
- Atrypa36 sites
- Isorthis33 sites
- Dicoelosia29 sites
- Dalejina27 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus24 sites
- Merista24 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus23 sites
- Howellella23 sites
- Skenidioides23 sites
- Favosites22 sites
- Gypidula22 sites
- Nucleospira22 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis21 sites
- Resserella20 sites
- Jonesea grayi19 sites
- Cyrtia18 sites
- Leptaena18 sites
- Lissatrypa18 sites
- Atrypoidea16 sites
- Septatrypa16 sites
- Craniops15 sites
- Dicoelosia biloba15 sites
- Calymene14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 141 sites for Clorinda, 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
61 references- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian32
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region16
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York10
- Early Silurian brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec9
- Late Ordovician and Early Silurian pentamerid brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada8
- Sedimentology, benthic communities, and brachiopods in the Suchomasty (Dalejan) and Acanthopyge (Eifelian) Limestones of the Koneprusy area (Czechoslovakia)8
- Wenlockian (Silurian) brachiopods of the Cape Phillips Formation, Baillie Hamilton Island, Arctic Canada: part I8
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages6
- Tyazheva et al., 19766
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America4
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)4
- Silurian Brachiopod communities in the section of the Pilviškiai - 141 borehole4
Each of the 199 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. 49 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Clorinda
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- ciscapodarco
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itClorindinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1879