Orbiculoidea wyomingensis

Orbiculoidea wyomingensis

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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 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.4 Mya and 321.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous335–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335.9 Mya321.3 Mya

3 occurrences of Orbiculoidea wyomingensis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

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

2 formations

Arco Hills — 43.63°N, 113.30°WArco Hills — 43.87°N, 112.88°WAmsden — 42.64°N, 108.71°W

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The named rock units Orbiculoidea wyomingensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Orbiculoidea wyomingensis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Orbiculoidea wyomingensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Orbiculoidea wyomingensis, 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

2 references

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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Picture of Orbiculoidea wyomingensis

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No 3D scan of Orbiculoidea wyomingensis 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 itOrbiculoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson and Greger 1918