Desmorthis segnis
No picture of Desmorthis segnis 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 Desmorthis segnis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DesmorthisPBDB
- 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 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Desmorthis segnis 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Desmorthis segnis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Desmorthis segnis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Desmorthis segnis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Glyptorthis imbrex2 sites
- Hoekaspis2 sites
- Lonchodomas2 sites
- Trinucleus2 sites
- Ampyx1 site
- Baltograptus minutus1 site
- Branisaspis1 site
- Bucania1 site
- Colpocoryphe1 site
- Coxiconchia sellaensis1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Cyptendoceras1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Endoceras1 site
- Eothinoceras1 site
- Famatinolithus1 site
- Goniophorina (Cosmogoniophorina)1 site
- Haploprimitia1 site
- Lecanospira1 site
- Lingulocystis boliviensis1 site
- Maclurites1 site
- Natasia boliviensis1 site
- Neseuretus1 site
- Pliomeridius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Desmorthis segnis, 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
2 references- Ordovician brachiopods of Bolivia: Succession of assemblages, climate control, affinity to Anglo-French and Bohemian provinces2
- Lower Ordovician bivalves from southern Bolivia: paleobiogeographic affinities1
Each of the 3 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 Desmorthis segnis 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 Desmorthis segnis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Desmorthis segnis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDesmorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Havlicek and Branisa 1980