Glyptorthis viriosa
No picture of Glyptorthis viriosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 viriosa, 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 468 Mya and 457.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
35 occurrences of Glyptorthis viriosa 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
35 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
8 formations
- Ffairfach Flags and Grits Formation · Ffairfach Group11
- Flags and Grits Formation9
- Spy Wood Grit Formation6
- Meadowtown Beds Formation4
- Ffairfach Pebbly Sands Formation · Ffairfach Group2
- Whittery Shales Formation1
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The named rock units Glyptorthis viriosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glyptorthis viriosa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Glyptorthis viriosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Dalmanella parva23 sites
- Trepostomata23 sites
- Crinoidea22 sites
- Bryozoa21 sites
- Macrocoelia llandeiloensis21 sites
- Basilicus tyrannus20 sites
- Hyalostelia20 sites
- Trilobita20 sites
- Tallinnella16 sites
- Brachiopoda15 sites
- Triplesia edgelliana15 sites
- Gelidorthis13 sites
- Tissintia immatura13 sites
- Cryptostomata12 sites
- Dalmanella salopiensis9 sites
- Marrolithus9 sites
- Horderleyella7 sites
- Palaeoglossa attenuata7 sites
- Conularida indet.6 sites
- Flexicalymene cambrensis6 sites
- Kullervo6 sites
- Schizocrania6 sites
- Bicuspina5 sites
- Bystromena perplexa5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Glyptorthis viriosa, 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- Benthic palaeocommunities represented in the Ffairfach Group and coeval Ordovician successions of Wales24
- Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire11
Each of the 35 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 viriosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 viriosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glyptorthis viriosa 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. Williams 1974