Glyptorthis uniformis
No picture of Glyptorthis uniformis 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 uniformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Glyptorthis uniformis 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
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The named rock units Glyptorthis uniformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glyptorthis uniformis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Glyptorthis uniformis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Sowerbyella socialis2 sites
- Columbocystis typica1 site
- Dinorthis transversa1 site
- Eumorphocystis multiporata1 site
- Macrocoelia magna1 site
- Macrocoelia rotunda1 site
- Mimella globosa1 site
- Paurorthis1 site
- Protozyga1 site
- Rhipidomena tennesseensis1 site
- Skenidioides1 site
- Sowerbyella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Glyptorthis uniformis, 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 Glyptorthis uniformis 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 uniformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glyptorthis uniformis 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. Cooper 1956