Orthothecimorpha

No picture of Orthothecimorpha 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 Orthothecimorpha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyolithaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 192 of 194 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 194 occurrencesOrdovician639–632 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences632–626 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences626–619 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences619–613 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences613–607 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences607–600 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences600–594 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences594–587 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences587–581 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences581–574 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences574–568 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences568–562 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences562–555 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences555–549 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences549–542 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences542–536 Mya — about 8 occurrences536–529 Mya — about 17 occurrences529–523 Mya — about 66 occurrences523–517 Mya — about 72 occurrences517–510 Mya — about 9 occurrences510–504 Mya — about 16 occurrences504–497 Mya — about 3 occurrences497–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences538.8 Mya458.2 Mya639 Mya446 Mya

194 occurrences of Orthothecimorpha on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

194 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

41 formations

Chapel Island — 46.92°N, 56.00°WChapel Island — 47.00°N, 56.00°WChapel Island — 47.07°N, 55.87°WPestrotsvet — 57.35°N, 131.20°EPestrotsvet — 57.67°N, 131.83°EPestrotsvet — 57.17°N, 132.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.70°N, 124.72°EPestrotsvet — 60.82°N, 125.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.92°N, 125.77°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.40°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 128.00°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 127.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.33°EPestrotsvet — 66.40°N, 112.28°EPestrotsvet — 57.40°N, 132.73°EChulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.87°EChulaktau — 43.62°N, 69.73°EChulaktau — 43.37°N, 70.22°EChulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.97°EChulaktau — 43.68°N, 69.68°EChulaktau — 43.60°N, 69.45°EShabakty — 43.47°N, 69.87°EShabakty — 43.62°N, 69.73°EShabakty — 43.47°N, 69.97°EGowers — 19.50°S, 138.93°EGowers — 19.57°S, 138.92°EWeymouth — 41.95°N, 71.28°WWeymouth — 42.43°N, 70.92°WWeymouth — 42.22°N, 70.95°WBeetle Creek — 21.89°S, 139.98°EBeetle Creek — 21.83°S, 139.98°EFosters Point — 46.00°N, 60.00°WFosters Point — 45.77°N, 60.29°WSukharikha — 67.22°N, 87.03°ESukharikha — 67.14°N, 86.75°ESukharikha — 67.82°N, 86.52°EMedvezhin — 70.50°N, 103.40°EMedvezhin — 70.67°N, 103.00°EKessyusa — 71.33°N, 123.97°EMedvezhya — 71.33°N, 99.50°EManykay — 70.67°N, 103.00°EEmyaksin — 62.00°N, 129.67°EEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.88°ESoltanieh — 35.67°N, 51.42°EUst-Yudoma — 57.35°N, 131.20°EUst-Yudoma — 57.67°N, 131.83°EKrasnoporog — 67.14°N, 86.75°EParara Limestone — 34.92°S, 137.80°EBeshtash — 42.17°N, 72.00°EWest Centre Cove — 46.00°N, 60.00°WWest Centre Cove — 48.60°N, 53.40°WBreivik — 70.58°N, 28.18°ELower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WLower Comley — 52.65°N, 2.73°WTyuser — 71.03°N, 127.48°EZhujiaqing — 24.55°N, 102.72°EZhujiaqing — 26.38°N, 103.21°E

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The named rock units Orthothecimorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthothecimorpha and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Orthothecimorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

488 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Orthothecimorpha, 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

39 references

Each of the 194 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. 27 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 content0

No picture of Orthothecimorpha 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 Orthothecimorpha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Orthothecimorpha 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 itHyolitha through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.