Kujanorthis anderkensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KujanorthisPBDB
- 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 most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 468 Mya and 461.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Kujanorthis anderkensis 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
7 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 Kujanorthis anderkensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kujanorthis anderkensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Kujanorthis anderkensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Apatomorpha cita5 sites
- Christiania hastata5 sites
- Taphrodonta kelleri5 sites
- Taphrorthis5 sites
- Chonetoidea4 sites
- Metacamarella kopalica4 sites
- Paralenorthis rgaitensis4 sites
- Asperdelia villosa3 sites
- Toquimia margiata3 sites
- Trondorthis3 sites
- Broeggeria putilla2 sites
- Camerella mica2 sites
- Neostrophia marinae2 sites
- Talasotreta gigantea2 sites
- Tritoechia crassa2 sites
- Calyptolepta1 site
- Elliptoglossa sylvanica1 site
- Eoconulus clivosus1 site
- Eurytreta campaniformis1 site
- Hesperonomiella uzunbulakensis1 site
- Kopalina perplexa1 site
- Leptellina seletensis1 site
- Numericoma simplex1 site
- Paterula numerosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Kujanorthis anderkensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Kujanorthis anderkensis 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 Kujanorthis anderkensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kujanorthis anderkensis 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 itKujanorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nikitina et al. 2006