Ormistoniella malaca
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrmistoniellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Ormistoniella malaca on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
- Gydo Formation · Bokkeveld Group3
- Voorstehoek Formation · Ceres Group1
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The named rock units Ormistoniella malaca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ormistoniella malaca and its relatives
DevonianWhere Ormistoniella malaca and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Metacryphaeus (Metacryphaeus) caffer4 sites
- Actinopteria3 sites
- Ambocoelia3 sites
- Anchiopella3 sites
- Asterozoa3 sites
- Australocoelia3 sites
- Australospirifer3 sites
- Buchiola3 sites
- Burmeisteria3 sites
- Conularia3 sites
- Ctenodonta3 sites
- Francovichia3 sites
- Grammysia3 sites
- Hyolithes3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Nuculites3 sites
- Nuculites oblongatus3 sites
- Orthoceras3 sites
- Orthotheca3 sites
- Ostracoda3 sites
- Palaeoneilo3 sites
- Pennaia3 sites
- Pleurodictyum3 sites
- Pragozyga zwartbergense3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ormistoniella malaca, 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- Preliminary catalogue and report on the biostratigraphy and palaeogeographic distribution of the Bokkeveld fauna3
- A revision of the Devonian (Emsian-Eifelian) trilobita from the Bokkeveld Group of South Africa1
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
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No picture of Ormistoniella malaca was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Ormistoniella malaca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ormistoniella malaca 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 itOrmistoniella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lake 1904)