Orthovertella

A picture published with the record for Orthovertella. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
HemigordiopsinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Miliolina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Miliolina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Miliolina
Environment
hypersaline,marinePBDB, for Miliolina

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 9 of 35 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 22 of 35 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 35 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 1 occurrence297–295 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 4 occurrences290–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences280–277 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 1 occurrence272–270 Mya — about 1 occurrence270–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–257 Mya — about 4 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–252 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 4 occurrences307 Mya251.902 Mya325 Mya250 Mya

35 occurrences of Orthovertella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

35 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

12 formations

Naujoji Akmené — 55.75°N, 22.50°ENaujoji Akmené — 56.25°N, 22.08°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.72°N, 23.07°ENaujoji Akmené — 56.00°N, 23.67°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.30°N, 21.00°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.55°N, 22.80°ECallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.50°EGraham — 33.24°N, 98.15°WNaujoji Akmené — 55.03°N, 20.62°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.62°N, 21.20°EAbu Durba — 28.57°N, 33.30°EGraford — 33.22°N, 97.75°WPregolskian — 54.55°N, 22.80°EBelcher Channel — 76.94°N, 95.38°WKhovsgol — 43.57°N, 109.90°EBaitugan — 55.74°N, 52.03°EKamyshla — 54.52°N, 52.12°EMoran — 33.79°N, 98.65°W

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The named rock units Orthovertella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthovertella and its relatives

Permian

Where Orthovertella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

264 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Orthovertella, 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

12 references

Each of the 35 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 content1

Picture of Orthovertella

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itHemigordiopsinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman and Waters 1928