Orbiculoidea forbesii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrbiculoideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lingulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lingulida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lingulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Orbiculoidea forbesii on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Orbiculoidea forbesii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orbiculoidea forbesii and its relatives
SilurianWhere Orbiculoidea forbesii and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Lingula3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Coolinia pecten2 sites
- Cornulites2 sites
- Costistricklandia lirata2 sites
- Craniops2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus2 sites
- Dalmanites2 sites
- Dolerorthis2 sites
- Dolerorthis psygma2 sites
- Encrinurus2 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus2 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis2 sites
- Mendacella lata2 sites
- Mendacella phiala2 sites
- Mesopholidostrophia salopiensis2 sites
- Oriostoma globosum2 sites
- Palaeoleptostrophia compressa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Orbiculoidea forbesii, 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
2 references- The Silurian rocks of the Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire2
- The Upper Valentian brachiopod fauna of Shropshire, part 1: Inarticulata: Articulata, Protremata, Orthoidea1
Each of the 3 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 Orbiculoidea forbesii 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 Orbiculoidea forbesii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orbiculoidea forbesii 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 itOrbiculoidea through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1848)