Metorthonema distortum
No picture of Metorthonema distortum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Metorthonema distortum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetorthonemaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Metorthonema distortum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Metorthonema distortum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metorthonema distortum and its relatives
PermianWhere Metorthonema distortum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Amphiscapha proxima1 site
- Apachella prodontia1 site
- Ceraunocochlis kidderi1 site
- Donaldina gracilis1 site
- Donaldina knighti1 site
- Euphemites1 site
- Euphemitopsis multinodosa1 site
- Meekospira mimiae1 site
- Metorthonema sinistrale1 site
- Orthonema tricingulatum1 site
- Straparollus (Euomphalus) cornudanus1 site
- Worthenia alticarinata1 site
- Worthenia latialveozona1 site
- Yochelsonellisa eximia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Metorthonema distortum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Metorthonema distortum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Metorthonema distortum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metorthonema distortum 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 itMetorthonema through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Erwin 1988