Orthonychia enorme
No picture of Orthonychia enorme 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 Orthonychia enorme, 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 least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
5 occurrences of Orthonychia enorme on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Orthonychia enorme has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orthonychia enorme and its relatives
SilurianWhere Orthonychia enorme and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Boiotremus longitudinalis3 sites
- Euomphalopterus alatus3 sites
- Platyostoma cornutum3 sites
- Acervularia2 sites
- Anthozoa2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Aulopora2 sites
- Beyrichia2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Clathrodictyon2 sites
- Coenites2 sites
- Conchicolites2 sites
- Coolinia pecten2 sites
- Cornulites2 sites
- Craspedobolbina2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus2 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata2 sites
- Encrinurus punctatus2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Orthonychia enorme, 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
3 references- Silurian Reefs of Gotland2
- The Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland2
- Two new gastropod genera from the Lower Silurian of the Oslo Region, Norway1
Each of the 5 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. 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
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No picture of Orthonychia enorme 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 Orthonychia enorme, 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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What may have been alongside itOrthonychia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1884)