Orthotetacea

No picture of Orthotetacea was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Orthotetacea firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StrophomenoideaPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 5.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 416.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 2 of 6 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 4 of 6 occurrencesDevonian423–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences423.2 Mya416.3 Mya

6 occurrences of Orthotetacea 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

6 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

3 formations

Roberts Mountain — 39.95°N, 116.31°WWabash — 40.75°N, 86.35°WRoberts Mountains — 39.90°N, 116.36°W

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The named rock units Orthotetacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Orthotetacea and its relatives

Devonian

Where Orthotetacea and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Orthotetacea, 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

Each of the 6 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 Orthotetacea was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Orthotetacea firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Orthotetacea 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 itStrophomenoidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1884