Elliptoglossa rotundata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElliptoglossaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Obolidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Obolidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Obolidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- 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.
2 occurrences of Elliptoglossa rotundata 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
2 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
2 formations
- Edinburg Formation1
- Ardwell Farm Formation · Ardwell Group1
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The named rock units Elliptoglossa rotundata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elliptoglossa rotundata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Elliptoglossa rotundata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus2 sites
- Anazyga orbis1 site
- Anisopleurella balclatchiensis1 site
- Bilobia etheridgei1 site
- Bimuria superba1 site
- Bimuria youngiana1 site
- Chaulistomella1 site
- Christiania perrugata1 site
- Christiania subquadrata1 site
- Conotreta cuspidata1 site
- Conotreta davidsoni1 site
- Conotreta plana1 site
- Cooperea immatura1 site
- Cyrtonotella grandistriata1 site
- Dactylogonia1 site
- Dalmanella cheesemani1 site
- Doleroides tennesseensis1 site
- Dolerorthis1 site
- Dolerorthis rankini1 site
- Elliptoglossa ovalis1 site
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata1 site
- Eremotrema gracilis1 site
- Eridorthis inexpecta1 site
- Famatinorthis ponderosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Elliptoglossa rotundata, 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- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda1
- Chazyan and related brachiopods1
Each of the 2 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 Elliptoglossa rotundata 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 Elliptoglossa rotundata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elliptoglossa rotundata 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 itElliptoglossa through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956