Orthostrophella
No picture of Orthostrophella 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 Orthostrophella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 30 million years on record.
The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 410.62 Mya.
21 occurrences of Orthostrophella 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
21 occurrences- Ordovician10%
- Silurian48%
- Devonian43%
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
12 formations
- Rabbit Hill Limestone Formation8
- St. Clair Limestone Formation2
- Clarita Formation2
- Kopanina Formation1
- Henryhouse Formation1
- West Point Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Orthostrophella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orthostrophella and its relatives
SilurianWhere Orthostrophella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
190 taxa- Levenea navicula9 sites
- Howellella8 sites
- Howellella cycloptera8 sites
- Leptaena fremonti8 sites
- Megakozlowskiella magnapleura8 sites
- Meristella martini8 sites
- Anoplia7 sites
- Leptocoelia murphyi7 sites
- Leptocoelina squamosa7 sites
- Lissatrypa7 sites
- Nucleospira7 sites
- Pleiopleurina anticlastica7 sites
- Spinoplasia roeni7 sites
- Coelospira concava6 sites
- Dalejina6 sites
- Dalejina rossi6 sites
- Dolerorthis6 sites
- Leptaena6 sites
- Meristina6 sites
- Resserella6 sites
- Schuchertella6 sites
- Atrypa5 sites
- Eodictyonella5 sites
- Leangella5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Orthostrophella, 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
10 references- Early Devonian brachiopod biofacies of Western and Arctic North America7
- Articulate brachiopods of the St. Clair Limestone (Silurian), Arkansas and the Clarita Formation (Silurian), Oklahoma4
- Some Wenlockian-Geddinian, chiefly brachiopod dominated communities of North America2
- Late Ordovician and Early Silurian articulate brachiopods from Oklahoma, southwestern Illinois, and eastern Missouri2
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)1
- Braquiopodos Siluricos de las Formaciones Tambolar y Rinconada en la Precordillera de San Juan, Argentina1
- Additions to Silurian stratigraphy, lithofacies, biogeography and paleontology of Bolivia and southern Peru1
- Brachiopod biostratigraphy of the Llandoverian rocks of the Gaspé Peninsula1
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Rabbit Hill Limestone and Lone Mountain Dolomite of central Nevada1
- Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda1
Each of the 21 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
Media content0
No picture of Orthostrophella 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 Orthostrophella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orthostrophella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOrthidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.