Orthis

Orthis

porshunta · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
OrthidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 308 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 273 occurrencesOrdovician — about 204 of 273 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 35 of 273 occurrencesDevonian — about 24 of 273 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 273 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 273 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 273 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 273 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 273 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 273 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 273 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 273 occurrences495–484 Mya — about 2 occurrences484–473 Mya — about 30 occurrences473–462 Mya — about 128 occurrences462–450 Mya — about 33 occurrences450–439 Mya — about 23 occurrences439–428 Mya — about 19 occurrences428–417 Mya — about 4 occurrences417–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–394 Mya — about 3 occurrences394–383 Mya — about 15 occurrences383–372 Mya — about 5 occurrences372–361 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–338 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences338–327 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences305–293 Mya — about 2 occurrences293–282 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences271–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–249 Mya — about 5 occurrences170–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence477.1 Mya168.2 Mya495 Mya159 Mya

273 occurrences of Orthis 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

273 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

98 formations

Kanosh Shale — 38.78°N, 113.59°WKanosh Shale — 38.60°N, 113.75°WKanosh Shale — 39.89°N, 113.37°WKanosh Shale — 38.85°N, 113.46°WKanosh Shale — 38.87°N, 113.42°WKanosh Shale — 38.88°N, 113.47°WLynna — 60.00°N, 32.56°ETully — 42.66°N, 75.38°WTully — 42.79°N, 75.80°WTully — 42.74°N, 75.88°WTully — 42.76°N, 75.73°WSillaoru — 59.87°N, 31.43°ESillaoru — 60.05°N, 32.59°ESwan Peak — 40.16°N, 110.40°WSwan Peak — 41.97°N, 111.47°WSwan Peak — 41.77°N, 111.77°WSwan Peak — 40.89°N, 112.82°WDawan — 27.00°N, 108.00°EDawan — 29.00°N, 109.00°EDawan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 27.00°N, 101.00°EDawan — 31.00°N, 118.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WJuab Limestone — 38.60°N, 113.75°WJuab Limestone — 39.89°N, 113.37°WJuab Limestone — 38.85°N, 113.46°WJuab Limestone — 38.69°N, 112.60°WJuab Limestone — 39.17°N, 112.17°WShihtien — 25.00°N, 99.06°EShihtien — 24.77°N, 99.15°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 27.00°N, 105.00°EHonghuayuan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EHonghuayuan — 31.00°N, 118.00°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EShan Majiagou — 38.00°N, 114.00°EShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 112.00°EShan Majiagou — 41.00°N, 123.00°EShan Majiagou — 40.00°N, 123.00°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EGydo — 34.01°S, 23.46°EIrondequoit — 43.20°N, 77.62°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WGarden City — 42.00°N, 111.52°WGarden City — 41.92°N, 112.15°WGarden City — 41.78°N, 111.64°WSillaoru — 59.44°N, 27.22°ESillaoru — 59.44°N, 27.31°EKunlein — 22.37°N, 98.14°EKunlein — 22.06°N, 96.41°EKunlein — 22.93°N, 97.30°EXia Majiagou — 39.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 36.00°N, 114.00°EFengfeng — 38.00°N, 114.00°EFengfeng — 36.00°N, 114.00°EFengfeng — 36.00°N, 113.00°ETakche — 32.37°N, 77.62°ETakche — 32.03°N, 78.00°ETakche — 31.97°N, 78.05°EMytton Flags — 52.67°N, 2.00°WFjacka Shale — 58.00°N, 12.00°EWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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The named rock units Orthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 74 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Orthis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,616 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 252 sites for Orthis, and this reads 240 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

87 references

Each of the 273 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. 75 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 Orthis

Credit
porshunta
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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. (Dalman 1828)