Metorthis

No picture of Metorthis 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 Metorthis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetorthinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Plaesiomyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 454 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOrdovician — about 11 of 11 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–468 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya454 Mya487.1 Mya448.8 Mya

11 occurrences of Metorthis 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

9 formations

Dawan — 30.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 27.00°N, 101.00°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 105.00°ENanjinguan — 30.00°N, 111.00°EHongsiya — 24.00°N, 102.00°ETangchi — 26.00°N, 102.00°EBaota — 33.00°N, 106.00°EXiaqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°EFengfeng — 36.00°N, 114.00°EDaguanshan — 28.37°N, 104.89°E

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The named rock units Metorthis 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.

Metorthis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Metorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Metorthis, 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

8 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 content0

No picture of Metorthis 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 Metorthis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metorthis 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 itMetorthinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.