Heterorthella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterorthidaePBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
13 occurrences of Heterorthella 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
13 occurrences- Ordovician3%
- Silurian97%
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
6 formations
- La Chilca Formation4
- Lipeon Formation3
- Bambaya Sandstone Formation · Telimele Group1
- Lampa Formation1
- Pitinga Formation1
- Cedarburg Formation · Table Mountain Group1
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The named rock units Heterorthella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heterorthella and its relatives
SilurianWhere Heterorthella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Anabaia11 sites
- Clarkeia7 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Gastropoda5 sites
- Ancillotoechia4 sites
- Dalmanella testudinaria4 sites
- Protochonetes4 sites
- Tentaculitida4 sites
- Anacaenaspis3 sites
- Australonucula3 sites
- Bellerophontoidea3 sites
- Conularida indet.3 sites
- Ctenodonta3 sites
- Deceptrix3 sites
- Dualina3 sites
- Hyolithida3 sites
- Murchisonioidea3 sites
- Nuculites3 sites
- Pleurodictyum3 sites
- Rugosa3 sites
- Ananaspis2 sites
- Australoacaste2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Heterorthella, 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
7 references- Braquiopodos del Silurica temprano malvinocafrico (Formacion La Chilca), Precordillera Argentina3
- Lithofacies, taphonomy, and brachiopod assemblages in the Silurian of western Argentina: A review of Malvinokaffric Realm communities3
- Additions to Silurian stratigraphy, lithofacies, biogeography and paleontology of Bolivia and southern Peru3
- First record of Lower Silurian conodonts from South America: biostratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic implications of Llandovery conodonts in the Precordillera of Argentina1
- Revision of Silurian and Devonian strata of Brazil1
- Une faune Malvino-Cafre de Brachiopodes Siluriens du Bassin Bove (Guinee, Ouest de l'Afrique)1
- New evidence on the South African Lower Palaeozoic: age and fossils reviewed1
Each of the 13 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 Heterorthella 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 Heterorthella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterorthella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHeterorthidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.