Elyptorthis sp.
No picture of Elyptorthis sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Elyptorthis sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 451.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Elyptorthis sp. 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Elyptorthis sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elyptorthis sp. and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Elyptorthis sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Cornulites2 sites
- Fossulacrinus fossulus2 sites
- Hedstroemina orvikui2 sites
- Howellites wesenbergensis2 sites
- Ilmarinia2 sites
- Neobothriocidaris2 sites
- Nicolella oswaldi2 sites
- Oanduporella2 sites
- Oanduporella reticulata2 sites
- Onychoplecia2 sites
- Paracraniops2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Porambonites2 sites
- Pseudopholidops2 sites
- Rafinesquina2 sites
- Rugulosocrinus rugulosus2 sites
- Rynchotrema parva2 sites
- Schizocrinus2 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) tenera2 sites
- Varvaricrinus vostokovae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Elyptorthis sp., and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Elyptorthis sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Elyptorthis sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Elyptorthis sp. 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.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.