Hesperorthis martinssoni
No picture of Hesperorthis martinssoni 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 Hesperorthis martinssoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HesperorthisPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 421.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Hesperorthis martinssoni on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Hesperorthis martinssoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hesperorthis martinssoni and its relatives
SilurianWhere Hesperorthis martinssoni and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Acanthalomina1 site
- Acidaspis1 site
- Anastrophia deflexa1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Borealarges patulus1 site
- Borealarges tuckerae1 site
- Boucotinskia elongata1 site
- Conchidium bilocularis1 site
- Conchidium microlocularis1 site
- Coolinia pecten1 site
- Cyrtia exporrectus1 site
- Deiphon1 site
- Desquamatia1 site
- Dicoelosia biloba1 site
- Dicoelosia diversifrons1 site
- Dicoelosia paralata1 site
- Dicranogmus lepidus1 site
- Didrepanon1 site
- Didymothyris didyma1 site
- Eodictyonella1 site
- Eospirifer radiatus1 site
- Ferganella borealis1 site
- Gypidula galeata1 site
- Isorthis (Arcualla) boreaina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hesperorthis martinssoni, 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- A review of Silurian brachiopods from Gotland2
- Latest Ordovician-Silurian articulate brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Avalanche Lake area, southwestern District of Mackenzie, Canada1
Each of the 3 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 Hesperorthis martinssoni 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 Hesperorthis martinssoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hesperorthis martinssoni 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 itHesperorthis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassett and Cocks 1974