Orthonota

Orthonota

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthonotidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.3 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 73 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 18 of 73 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 53 of 73 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 73 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences437–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–430 Mya — about 3 occurrences430–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 9 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences420–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–409 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences409–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–402 Mya — about 1 occurrence402–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–395 Mya — about 4 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 3 occurrences392–388 Mya — about 3 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 20 occurrences385–381 Mya — about 15 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–360 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445.2 Mya365.2 Mya461 Mya357 Mya

73 occurrences of Orthonota 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

73 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

35 formations

Moscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.60°N, 74.60°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.60°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.47°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WLudlowville — 42.90°N, 78.22°WLudlowville — 42.79°N, 75.56°WLudlowville — 42.81°N, 75.54°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 75.71°WPagegiai — 55.29°N, 20.98°EPagegiai — 55.57°N, 21.45°EGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.93°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 75.02°WFentou — 32.05°N, 119.05°EErtang — 24.98°N, 109.98°EKartal — 40.90°N, 29.18°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.33°S, 19.37°ESilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WNorway Point — 45.20°N, 83.39°WBerlé — 50.01°N, 6.05°EBerlé — 50.05°N, 6.11°ELower Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EElton Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WLeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WOuray — 37.25°N, 108.75°WZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EYujiang — 22.39°N, 107.55°ESipai — 24.98°N, 109.98°ESteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°EWether Law Linn — 55.81°N, 3.36°WUpper Wengxiang — 26.50°N, 108.00°EXiajiaqiao — 29.25°N, 114.83°E

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The named rock units Orthonota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Orthonota and its relatives

Devonian

Where Orthonota and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

768 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Orthonota, 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

29 references

Each of the 73 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. 17 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 Orthonota

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Orthonota 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1841)