Orthotetidae

Derbyia Waagen, 1884, a relative of Orthotetidae — not Orthotetidae itself

Not Orthotetidae. This is Derbyia Waagen, 1884, a relative — both are Orthotetidae.

Collector(s): Leigh Margaret Fall · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthotetoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 172 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Silurian — about 5 of 374 occurrencesDevonian — about 21 of 374 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 220 of 374 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 128 of 374 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 374 occurrences434–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–422 Mya — about 3 occurrences422–416 Mya — about 4 occurrences416–409 Mya — about 11 occurrences409–403 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences403–397 Mya — about 1 occurrence397–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–366 Mya — about 2 occurrences366–360 Mya — about 2 occurrences360–354 Mya — about 6 occurrences354–347 Mya — about 10 occurrences347–341 Mya — about 30 occurrences341–335 Mya — about 34 occurrences335–329 Mya — about 71 occurrences329–323 Mya — about 32 occurrences323–316 Mya — about 13 occurrences316–310 Mya — about 9 occurrences310–304 Mya — about 8 occurrences304–298 Mya — about 8 occurrences298–292 Mya — about 23 occurrences292–285 Mya — about 38 occurrences285–279 Mya — about 18 occurrences279–273 Mya — about 10 occurrences273–267 Mya — about 3 occurrences267–261 Mya — about 15 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 10 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 9 occurrences426.7 Mya254.14 Mya434 Mya248 Mya

374 occurrences of Orthotetidae 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

374 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

115 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WCallytharra — 24.90°S, 115.55°ECallytharra — 24.55°S, 115.30°ECallytharra — 24.42°S, 115.32°ECallytharra — 25.43°S, 115.25°ECallytharra — 25.31°S, 115.46°ECallytharra — 25.20°S, 115.55°ECallytharra — 25.89°S, 115.50°ECallytharra — 24.05°S, 115.14°ECallytharra — 23.40°S, 115.00°ECallytharra — 23.83°S, 114.82°ECallytharra — 24.09°S, 115.15°ECallytharra — 26.06°S, 115.67°ECallytharra — 24.62°S, 115.33°ECallytharra — 23.86°S, 114.96°ECallytharra — 25.05°S, 115.50°ECallytharra — 25.07°S, 115.55°ENoonkanbah — 18.09°S, 123.85°ENoonkanbah — 18.66°S, 125.55°ENoonkanbah — 17.38°S, 124.36°ENoonkanbah — 17.38°S, 124.64°EJungle Creek — 65.88°N, 136.15°WJungle Creek — 65.88°N, 136.15°WJungle Creek — 67.52°N, 136.50°WJungle Creek — 64.98°N, 140.86°WJungle Creek — 65.39°N, 140.70°WJungle Creek — 65.30°N, 140.76°WJungle Creek — 65.28°N, 140.75°WHindsville — 36.30°N, 93.23°WHindsville — 35.94°N, 93.39°WBird Spring — 36.27°N, 115.43°WBird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.78°WBird Spring — 35.87°N, 115.37°WBird Spring — 35.67°N, 115.48°WLengwu — 29.92°N, 119.54°ERamp Creek — 39.33°N, 86.67°WRamp Creek — 39.03°N, 86.50°WRamp Creek — 39.08°N, 86.58°WRamp Creek — 39.33°N, 86.50°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WLittle Flat — 43.83°N, 111.75°WPitkin — 35.75°N, 95.20°WPitkin — 35.87°N, 95.23°WPitkin — 35.76°N, 94.81°WParadise — 31.93°N, 109.22°WParadise — 31.93°N, 100.22°WCarwood — 38.50°N, 85.83°WCarwood — 38.32°N, 85.90°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.70°N, 86.81°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.22°N, 86.55°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.10°N, 86.56°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.90°N, 86.64°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.38°N, 86.61°WBerrico Creek — 31.98°S, 151.70°EBerrico Creek — 31.93°S, 151.72°ETabberabbera — 37.58°S, 147.38°ETabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.39°EWoolooma — 32.50°S, 151.00°EWoolooma — 30.11°S, 150.28°ESalem Limestone — 37.78°N, 85.79°WSalem Limestone — 37.33°N, 85.50°WSalem Limestone — 37.05°N, 85.05°WBeech Creek — 38.95°N, 86.73°WBeech Creek — 38.94°N, 86.76°WBeech Creek — 38.83°N, 86.69°WBeech Creek — 38.59°N, 86.66°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WNeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.14°WFlagstaff Sandstone — 32.28°S, 151.63°EFlagstaff Sandstone — 32.21°S, 151.57°EHeshilafu — 38.00°N, 77.00°EEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WCanon de Caballeros — 23.77°N, 99.27°W

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The named rock units Orthotetidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 91 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthotetidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Orthotetidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,395 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 344 sites for Orthotetidae, and this reads 240 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

121 references

Each of the 374 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. 109 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 Derbyia Waagen, 1884

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): Leigh Margaret Fall
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Orthotetidae 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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What may have been alongside itOrthotetoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

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