Heterorthina emacerata

Heterorthina emacerata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterorthinaPBDB
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 800 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 451 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453.8 Mya to 449.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 11 of 11 occurrencesOrdovician454–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451 Mya450.2 Mya454.3 Mya449.1 Mya

11 occurrences of Heterorthina emacerata 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

11 occurrences

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

Scales Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDubuque — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWhitby — 45.50°N, 81.00°WWhitby — 43.88°N, 78.86°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WGroos Quarry — 46.35°N, 85.52°WClays Ferry — 38.00°N, 84.67°W

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The named rock units Heterorthina emacerata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Heterorthina emacerata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Heterorthina emacerata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

196 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Heterorthina emacerata, 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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

Media content1

Picture of Heterorthina emacerata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHeterorthina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1860)