Dolerorthis

Dolerorthis is an extinct genus of hesperorthid brachiopod. The type species of this genus, D. interplicata, was described from the Silurian (Telychian) Osgood Formation. Other species belonging to this genus are known from the Ordovician and Silurian of Europe, Kazakhstan, China and Argentina. It was roughly 4 centimetres (1.6 in) across.

Dolerorthis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HesperorthidaePBDB
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 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 128 of 464 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 307 of 464 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 29 of 464 occurrencesDevonian479–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–470 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–464 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 30 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 20 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 19 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 22 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 23 occurrences444–441 Mya — about 75 occurrences441–438 Mya — about 67 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 21 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 36 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 47 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 25 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 18 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 19 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 11 occurrences418–415 Mya — about 7 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 9 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 7 occurrences409–406 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences406–403 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468 Mya413.02 Mya479 Mya392 Mya

464 occurrences of Dolerorthis 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

464 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

162 formations

Solvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 59.83°N, 10.43°ESolvik — 59.86°N, 10.56°ESolvik — 59.84°N, 10.51°EJaani — 58.58°N, 22.37°EJaani — 58.55°N, 22.20°EJaani — 58.57°N, 22.29°EJaani — 58.53°N, 23.28°EJaani — 58.68°N, 23.20°EJaani — 58.62°N, 22.90°EJaani — 58.66°N, 23.50°EJaani — 58.51°N, 22.00°EJaani — 58.41°N, 21.98°EJaani — 58.62°N, 23.89°EHenryhouse — 35.00°N, 97.00°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WHenryhouse — 34.60°N, 97.03°WHenryhouse — 34.62°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.66°N, 96.68°WHenryhouse — 34.77°N, 96.67°WHenryhouse — 34.68°N, 96.76°WLaketown Dolomite — 38.50°N, 115.00°WLaketown Dolomite — 39.25°N, 114.88°WAnderken — 43.88°N, 75.55°EAnderken — 43.92°N, 75.48°EAnderken — 44.55°N, 74.85°EAnderken — 45.47°N, 72.03°ERacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WMynaral — 45.36°N, 73.73°EMynaral — 45.28°N, 73.72°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.81°N, 4.94°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.81°N, 4.78°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.79°N, 4.54°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.75°N, 4.93°WPaprieniai — 55.25°N, 23.15°EPaprieniai — 55.20°N, 23.87°EPaprieniai — 55.67°N, 25.38°EGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EWhittaker — 63.77°N, 125.27°WWhittaker — 62.38°N, 127.00°WRoad River — 65.00°N, 136.00°WRoad River — 64.76°N, 135.17°WAnse Cascon — 48.18°N, 64.97°WAnse Cascon — 47.83°N, 65.50°WHusbergøya — 59.89°N, 10.53°EHusbergøya — 59.85°N, 10.53°EHusbergøya — 59.88°N, 10.72°EArdwell Farm — 55.25°N, 4.85°WArdwell Farm — 55.22°N, 4.77°WRoberts Mountain — 39.84°N, 116.35°WRoberts Mountain — 39.95°N, 116.31°WGelli-Grin — 53.00°N, 4.00°WMiaopo — 33.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 30.86°N, 111.39°EWenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WCabano — 47.71°N, 68.77°WWeir — 48.27°N, 65.08°WWeir — 48.18°N, 64.97°WWeir — 47.83°N, 65.50°WBeijuntang — 23.35°N, 109.33°EBeijuntang — 22.00°N, 110.00°E

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The named rock units Dolerorthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 138 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 96 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dolerorthis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Dolerorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,961 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 429 sites for Dolerorthis, and this reads 240 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

138 references

Each of the 464 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. 126 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 content1

Picture of Dolerorthis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dolerorthis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert and Cooper 1931