Glyptorthis pulchra
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlyptorthisPBDB
- 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 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.9 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
20 occurrences of Glyptorthis pulchra 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
20 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
4 formations
- Mangazea Formation · Baksanian Group11
- Dolbor Formation · Dolborian Group6
- Saturday Mountain Formation2
- Maquoketa Formation · Maquoketa Group1
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The named rock units Glyptorthis pulchra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glyptorthis pulchra and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Glyptorthis pulchra and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Parajonesites11 sites
- Strophomena lethea10 sites
- Aparchitella8 sites
- Dolborella7 sites
- Euprimites7 sites
- Hesperorthis australis7 sites
- Oepikina7 sites
- Rostricellula7 sites
- Costoprimites6 sites
- Maakina parvuliformis6 sites
- Opikina parvula6 sites
- Triplesia6 sites
- Glandites5 sites
- Maakina5 sites
- Rostricellula transversa5 sites
- Opikina4 sites
- Planusella4 sites
- Boreadorthis3 sites
- Evenkaspis3 sites
- Leptellina3 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra2 sites
- Austinella2 sites
- Ceraurinus icarus2 sites
- Cyrtophyllum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Glyptorthis pulchra, 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
3 references- Ordovician of the Tungus Basin (Siberian Platform). Field excursion guidebook17
- Brachiopod fauna of Saturday Mountain Formation Southern Lemhi Range Idaho2
- Maquoketa Brachiopoda of Iowa1
Each of the 20 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
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No picture of Glyptorthis pulchra 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 Glyptorthis pulchra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glyptorthis pulchra 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 itGlyptorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang 1949