Orbipora solida

Öpik, Armin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrbiporaPBDB
- 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 most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.1 Mya and 461.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Orbipora solida 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 Orbipora solida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Orbipora solida and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Orbipora solida and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Sinuites rugulosus3 sites
- Cyrtolites grandis2 sites
- Dianulites2 sites
- Drepanoistodus forceps2 sites
- Eccyliopterus regularis2 sites
- Esthoniopora curvata2 sites
- Falodus parvidentatus2 sites
- Holopea eichwaldi2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Loxoplocus (Lophospira) curvistriata curvistriata2 sites
- Palaeacmaea2 sites
- Paracordylodus2 sites
- Prioniodus2 sites
- Proturritella bicarinata2 sites
- Scandodus2 sites
- Semiacontiodus cornuformis2 sites
- Acanthoparypha tumida tumida1 site
- Actinolobus atavus1 site
- Anolotichia revalensis1 site
- Asaphus (Neoasaphus) kowalewskii1 site
- Aserioceras purtsensis1 site
- Bifoveoceras1 site
- Bucanella revaliensis1 site
- Chasmops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Orbipora solida, 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- Stratigrafia viruskoy i kharjuskoy seriy (ordovik) Sevemoy Estonii. [Stratigraphy of the Viruan and Harjuan Series (Ordovician) in North Estonia]2
- The early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces2
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Orbipora solida
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Öpik, Armin
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Orbipora solida 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 itOrbipora through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1911