Orthambonites exopunctata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthambonitesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthambonites
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthambonites
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthambonites
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 457.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.7 Mya456.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Orthambonites exopunctata 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

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

1 formation

Whittery Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°W

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

Orthambonites exopunctata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Orthambonites exopunctata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Orthambonites exopunctata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Orthambonites exopunctata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Orthambonites exopunctata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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. Williams 1974