Orbithele

No picture of Orbithele was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Orbithele, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrothelinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 468 Mya.

Cambrian — about 5 of 17 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 12 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician507–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–475 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499.5 Mya477.1 Mya507.3 Mya467.2 Mya

17 occurrences of Orbithele 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

17 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

12 formations

Trenice — 50.00°N, 14.00°ETrenice — 49.78°N, 13.68°EMilina — 49.80°N, 13.80°EKlabava — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKlabava — 49.71°N, 13.65°EHolm Dal — 82.42°N, 39.75°WAlum Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°EShallow Bay — 49.92°N, 57.83°WVal d'Homs — 43.00°N, 2.00°E"Dolodrook River Limestone" — 37.60°S, 146.63°EWysoczki Chalcedonite — 50.67°N, 21.27°ESimeh-Kuh — 36.21°N, 54.22°ELatorp — 60.90°N, 15.07°EPulgon Olistoliths — 50.21°N, 72.66°E

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The named rock units Orbithele 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.

Orbithele and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Orbithele and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

179 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Orbithele, 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

13 references

Each of the 17 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Orbithele was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Orbithele, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Orbithele 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 itAcrothelinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sdzuy 1955