Isorophus austini
No picture of Isorophus austini 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 Isorophus austini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IsorophusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Isorophus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Isorophus
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Isorophus
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Isorophus austini 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
2 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
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The named rock units Isorophus austini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Isorophus austini and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Isorophus austini and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Ambonychia1 site
- Batostomella1 site
- Cameroceras1 site
- Diestoceras eos1 site
- Drepanella richardsoni1 site
- Graptodictya1 site
- Hebertella sinuata1 site
- Homotrypa1 site
- Ischyrodonta1 site
- Isotelus maximus1 site
- Lichenocrinus1 site
- Loxobucania crassa1 site
- Pseudocolpomya miseneri1 site
- Pterinea demissa1 site
- Richmondoceras brevicameratum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Isorophus austini, 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
2 references- Edrioasteroids on corals: Taphonomic feedback and sedimentary processescontrol the ecology of a Late Ordovician (Katian: Cincinnatian,Richmondian) community in central Kentucky, USA1
- The occurrence of pelecypods in early Paleozoic epeiric-sea environments, Late Ordovician of the Cincinnati, Ohio area1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Isorophus austini 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 Isorophus austini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Isorophus austini 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 itIsorophus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1914