Heterorthis retrorsistria
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterorthisPBDB
- 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 600 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 456.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 452.5 Mya.
3 occurrences of Heterorthis retrorsistria 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
3 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
2 formations
- Calapuja Formation1
- Allt Ddu Formation · Lower Bala Group1
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The named rock units Heterorthis retrorsistria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heterorthis retrorsistria and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Heterorthis retrorsistria and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Bicuspina2 sites
- Colaptomena expansa prolata2 sites
- Dalmanella2 sites
- Dinorthis berwynensis2 sites
- Howellites2 sites
- Leptaena ventricosa2 sites
- Lingulella ovata2 sites
- Reuschella horderleyensis2 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sericea2 sites
- <isoletinid>1 site
- Broeggerolithus broeggeri1 site
- Brongniartella1 site
- Colaptomena expansa1 site
- Dinorthis flabellulum1 site
- Drabovinella minuscula1 site
- Flexicalymene (Reacalymene) limba1 site
- Horderleyella chacaltanai1 site
- Vellamo1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Heterorthis retrorsistria, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Late Ordovician brachiopods from Peru and their palaeobiogeographical relationships1
- The Stratigraphy of the Bala District, Merionethshire1
- The Caradocian brachiopod faunas of the Bala District, Merionethshire1
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 Heterorthis retrorsistria 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 Heterorthis retrorsistria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterorthis retrorsistria 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 itHeterorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McCoy 1851)