Orthonychia

Orthonychia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthonychiidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 168 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Silurian — about 15 of 194 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 67 of 194 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 69 of 194 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 43 of 194 occurrencesPermian442–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–417 Mya — about 13 occurrences417–411 Mya — about 16 occurrences411–405 Mya — about 8 occurrences405–399 Mya — about 7 occurrences399–393 Mya — about 12 occurrences393–386 Mya — about 8 occurrences386–380 Mya — about 9 occurrences380–374 Mya — about 1 occurrence374–368 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences368–362 Mya — about 2 occurrences362–355 Mya — about 3 occurrences355–349 Mya — about 4 occurrences349–343 Mya — about 6 occurrences343–337 Mya — about 6 occurrences337–331 Mya — about 22 occurrences331–324 Mya — about 9 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 2 occurrences318–312 Mya — about 3 occurrences312–306 Mya — about 10 occurrences306–300 Mya — about 5 occurrences300–293 Mya — about 8 occurrences293–287 Mya — about 4 occurrences287–281 Mya — about 4 occurrences281–275 Mya — about 9 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 9 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 7 occurrences262–256 Mya — about 2 occurrences432.9 Mya264.28 Mya442 Mya256 Mya

194 occurrences of Orthonychia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

194 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

80 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WCalcaire d’Erbray — 47.66°N, 1.32°WWord — 30.39°N, 103.18°WPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 50.08°N, 14.47°EPozary — 49.90°N, 14.02°EPozary — 50.00°N, 14.35°EBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.51°N, 104.93°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WTorquay — 50.47°N, 3.50°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WToongabble Limestone — 38.08°S, 146.58°EAllegheny — 41.03°N, 80.78°WAllegheny — 40.93°N, 80.48°WAllegheny — 41.03°N, 80.53°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WDiamond Peak — 39.48°N, 115.45°WDiamond Peak — 39.48°N, 115.93°WDiamond Peak — 39.54°N, 115.83°WBoone — 34.91°N, 93.84°WBoone — 35.80°N, 91.72°WChapman Sandstone — 46.65°N, 68.17°WSisophon — 13.06°N, 103.04°ESisophon — 13.05°N, 103.06°ELogan — 38.78°N, 82.93°WGrande Greve — 48.81°N, 64.25°WGrande Greve — 48.53°N, 64.22°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WGlenshaw — 40.52°N, 79.95°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°ELambertenghi — 46.61°N, 12.87°EFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WBeech Creek — 38.09°N, 90.00°WGlen Dean — 37.37°N, 88.97°W"Carboniferous" — 50.85°N, 20.42°E

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The named rock units Orthonychia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthonychia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Orthonychia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2,805 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 158 sites for Orthonychia, 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

73 references

Each of the 194 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. 61 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 Orthonychia

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

No 3D scan of Orthonychia 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. (Hall 1843)