Orbipora

Orbipora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrbiporinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 272 million years on record.

The record covers at least 473.8 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 23 of 27 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 27 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 27 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPermian — about 1 of 27 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 27 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrences483–473 Mya — about 1 occurrence473–462 Mya — about 13 occurrences462–452 Mya — about 6 occurrences452–441 Mya — about 3 occurrences378–368 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences368–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence273–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence211–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–190 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences190–179 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences179–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473.8 Mya201.4 Mya483 Mya169 Mya

27 occurrences of Orbipora 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

27 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

14 formations

Kandle — 59.42°N, 24.75°EÖland C — 57.35°N, 17.05°EDalby — 57.00°N, 17.00°EVaginatumkalk — 59.42°N, 24.75°EJifarah — 29.78°N, 12.28°EAmb — 32.51°N, 71.93°EKanosh — 38.88°N, 113.46°WLehman — 38.88°N, 113.46°WLyckholm — 58.98°N, 22.46°EViivikonna — 59.37°N, 26.99°EPakri — 59.42°N, 24.75°EVolkhov — 60.00°N, 32.56°ELoobu — 59.40°N, 24.56°EOgof Hen — 51.82°N, 4.37°W

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The named rock units Orbipora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orbipora and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Orbipora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Orbipora, 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

12 references

Each of the 27 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 content1

Picture of Orbipora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Orbipora 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 itOrbiporinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1856