Orbitremites

Orbitremites

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · 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
OrbitremitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 342.9 Mya to 339.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 351.9 Mya to 335.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous352–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences342.9 Mya339.9 Mya352.4 Mya335.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Orbitremites 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

4 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

3 formations

New Providence — 38.09°N, 85.72°WBorden — 38.50°N, 85.92°WDartry Limestone — 54.42°N, 7.86°W

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

Orbitremites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Orbitremites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Orbitremites, 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

3 references

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 Orbitremites

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOrbitremitidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Austin and Austin 1842