Hesperorthis sulcata
No picture of Hesperorthis sulcata 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 sulcata, 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 7.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Hesperorthis sulcata 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
1 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 Hesperorthis sulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hesperorthis sulcata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hesperorthis sulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Acanthocrania1 site
- Ancistrorhyncha1 site
- Ancistrorhyncha costata1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Chaulistomella1 site
- Craniops1 site
- Cyclospira1 site
- Doleroides1 site
- Ectenoglossa1 site
- Glosella liumbona1 site
- Glyprorthis costellata1 site
- Lingulasma1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Neostrophia1 site
- Oepikina1 site
- Onychoplecia tenuis1 site
- Opikina extensa1 site
- Orbiculoidea1 site
- Oxoplecia1 site
- Pachyglossella1 site
- Paurorthis1 site
- Petrocrania1 site
- Platymena bellatula1 site
- Plectambonites sericeus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hesperorthis sulcata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Hesperorthis sulcata 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 sulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hesperorthis sulcata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHesperorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956