Orbiculiformella incognita

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrbiculiformellaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 8 of 12 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 2 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182.9 Mya165.3 Mya184.7 Mya161 Mya

12 occurrences of Orbiculiformella incognita on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

12 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

4 formations

Phantom Creek — 53.42°N, 132.27°WGraham Island — 53.40°N, 132.27°WShelikof — 57.75°N, 155.48°WLos Molles — 39.09°S, 70.88°W

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The named rock units Orbiculiformella incognita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orbiculiformella incognita and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Orbiculiformella incognita and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Orbiculiformella incognita, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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

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

No 3D scan of Orbiculiformella incognita 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 itOrbiculiformella through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Blome 1984)