Orthonychia chesterense
No picture of Orthonychia chesterense was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Orthonychia chesterense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthonychiaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.9 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Orthonychia chesterense 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
10 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
7 formations
- Beech Creek Formation · Okaw Group2
- Glen Dean Formation · Okaw Group2
- Maxville Limestone Formation2
- Okaw Formation1
- Golconda Formation1
- Haney Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Orthonychia chesterense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orthonychia chesterense and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Orthonychia chesterense and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Euomphalus planodorsatus4 sites
- Retispira ornatus4 sites
- Cymatospira welleri3 sites
- Donaldina marigoldensis3 sites
- Eotrochus marigoldensis3 sites
- Gosseletina johnsoni3 sites
- Meekospira evansvillensis3 sites
- Patellilabia chesterensis3 sites
- Salterospira chesterensis3 sites
- Strophostylus wortheni3 sites
- Bellerophon chesterensis2 sites
- Dictyotomaria yochelsoni2 sites
- Donaldina americana2 sites
- Euphemites randolphensis2 sites
- Hypergonia marvinwelleri2 sites
- Meekospira bambooformis2 sites
- Naticopsis waterlooensis2 sites
- Palaeozygopleura welleri2 sites
- Porcellia chesterensis2 sites
- Stegocoelia okawensis2 sites
- Aclisina golconda1 site
- Astartella clinata1 site
- Aviculopecten winchelli1 site
- Bulimorpha minor1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Orthonychia chesterense, 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
2 references- Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) Gastropoda of the Illinois basin8
- Gastropods and Rostroconchs (Mollusca) from the Maxville Limestone (Upper Mississippian) in Ohio2
Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Orthonychia chesterense was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Orthonychia chesterense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orthonychia chesterense was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itOrthonychia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1867)