Dinorthis sweeneyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DinorthisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dinorthis
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dinorthis
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Dinorthis
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Dinorthis sweeneyi 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
- Decorah Formation · Galena Group3
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The named rock units Dinorthis sweeneyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dinorthis sweeneyi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Dinorthis sweeneyi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Glyptorthis bellarugosa3 sites
- Hesperorthis tricenaria2 sites
- Oepikina inquassa2 sites
- Paucicrura rogata2 sites
- Rhynchotrema2 sites
- Strophomena filitexta2 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra1 site
- Arthroclema1 site
- Bollia1 site
- Bythocypris1 site
- Ceratopsis chambersi1 site
- Craniops1 site
- Cyphotrypa1 site
- Cytherella1 site
- Dinorthis meedsi1 site
- Dinorthis pectinella1 site
- Diorthelasma weissi1 site
- Drepanella1 site
- Eridoconcha1 site
- Eurychilina1 site
- Graptodictya1 site
- Halliella1 site
- Isotelus1 site
- Jonesella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dinorthis sweeneyi, 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- Stratigraphy of the Decorah Formation2
- Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic system within The Ordovician (Caradocian, Mohawkian) epeiric sea, Decorah Formation, Upper Mississippi Valley Region, USA1
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. 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 Dinorthis sweeneyi 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 Dinorthis sweeneyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dinorthis sweeneyi 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 itDinorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Winchell 1881)