Kjaerina orvikui
No picture of Kjaerina orvikui 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 Kjaerina orvikui, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KjaerinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Kjaerina orvikui 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
4 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 Kjaerina orvikui 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.
Kjaerina orvikui and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Kjaerina orvikui and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Howellites wesenbergensis2 sites
- Kjaerina poljensis2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) tenera2 sites
- Toxochasmops2 sites
- Achradocystites schmidti1 site
- Asperellacystis asperellus1 site
- Asperellacystis plicatus1 site
- Kurnamena rugosoides1 site
- Leptaena1 site
- Oandumena fluviatilis1 site
- Oanduporella reticulata1 site
- Philhedra1 site
- Pseudopholidops1 site
- Rakverina oanduensis1 site
- Rhactorthis1 site
- Rhynchotrema parva1 site
- Saukrodictya1 site
- Skenidioides1 site
- Toxochasmops (Toxochasmops) estonicus1 site
- Toxochasmops (Toxochasmops) inge1 site
- Toxochasmops (Toxochasmops) notabilis1 site
- Trigrammaria minima1 site
- Vellamo1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kjaerina orvikui, 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
2 references- Oandu stage (Caradoc) in central North Estonia2
- A Review of Estonian Ordovician Rafinesquinids (Brachiopoda, Strophomenacea)2
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Kjaerina orvikui 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 Kjaerina orvikui, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kjaerina orvikui 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 itKjaerina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oraspold 1956)