Nothorthis tarda
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NothorthisPBDB
- 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 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Nothorthis tarda 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Nothorthis tarda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nothorthis tarda and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Nothorthis tarda and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Phragmorthis buttsi4 sites
- Taphrorthis peculiaris4 sites
- Bimuria buttsi3 sites
- Christiania sulcata3 sites
- Craspedelia marginata3 sites
- Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata3 sites
- Lingulella3 sites
- Paurorthis fasciculata3 sites
- Ptychoglyptus virginiensis3 sites
- Ptychopleurella rectangulata3 sites
- Skenidioides costatus3 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus3 sites
- Xenambonites undosus3 sites
- Camerella minuta2 sites
- Conotreta2 sites
- Cyrtonotella subfissicosta2 sites
- Eremotoechia silicica2 sites
- Glyptambonites glyptus2 sites
- Glyptomena trippi2 sites
- Isophragma extensum2 sites
- Palaeostrophomena angulata2 sites
- Scaphorthis virginiensis2 sites
- Sivorthis tenuicostatus2 sites
- Acanthambonia minutissima1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nothorthis tarda, 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
3 references- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda2
- On an exposure of the Ordovician superstes Mudstones at Colmonell, Girvan District, Strathclyde1
- Chazyan and related brachiopods1
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. 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 Nothorthis tarda 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 Nothorthis tarda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nothorthis tarda 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 itNothorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956