Ornithella

Ornithella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VectellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 105 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 78 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 78 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 78 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 16 of 78 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 41 of 78 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 78 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous239–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–231 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences231–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–222 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences222–218 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences214–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192–188 Mya — about 1 occurrence188–184 Mya — about 1 occurrence184–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 8 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 7 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 14 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 9 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 18 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–119 Mya — about 4 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 7 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences227.3 Mya121.4 Mya239 Mya111 Mya

78 occurrences of Ornithella on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

78 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

28 formations

Nusplinger Plattenkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EHanifa — 23.90°N, 46.28°EHanifa — 23.08°N, 46.53°EHanifa — 22.60°N, 46.37°EHanifa — 22.40°N, 46.95°EHanifa — 22.08°N, 45.90°EHanifa — 24.52°N, 45.95°EHanifa — 26.03°N, 45.17°EHanifa — 25.17°N, 46.24°EFerruginous Sands — 50.63°N, 1.17°WSandgate — 51.23°N, 0.58°WSandgate — 50.98°N, 0.75°WSandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WSandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WWoburn Sand — 52.00°N, 0.77°WMadbi — 14.27°N, 48.57°EMadbi — 14.32°N, 48.45°EAspidoides Bank — 47.83°N, 8.55°EAspidoides Bank — 47.85°N, 8.52°ENaifa — 14.27°N, 48.56°ENaifa — 14.31°N, 48.48°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°EDhruma — 23.80°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 24.08°N, 45.50°EHinchman — 40.05°N, 120.78°WSt. Ursanne — 47.41°N, 7.42°ESt-Ursanne — 47.37°N, 7.17°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°ENusplingen Limestone — 48.13°N, 8.88°EHythe — 51.25°N, 0.07°WHanwang — 31.50°N, 104.23°EPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°ESa Wer — 10.16°N, 43.06°EJiapila — 31.34°N, 98.14°EKuahongdong — 31.50°N, 104.24°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°ELiesberg — 47.29°N, 7.06°ECape Stewart — 70.45°N, 22.65°W

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The named rock units Ornithella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ornithella and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ornithella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

669 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Ornithella, 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

21 references

Each of the 78 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. 9 further references are 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 content1

Picture of Ornithella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.