Paurorthis

Paurorthis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PaurorthidaePBDB
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 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 438.6 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 237 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 233 of 237 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 237 occurrencesSilurian498–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–494 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences492–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 5 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 17 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 20 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 71 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 41 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 14 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 9 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 5 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 4 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 12 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 12 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 8 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 7 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences444–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya443.1 Mya498 Mya437 Mya

237 occurrences of Paurorthis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

237 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

46 formations

Volkhov — 59.87°N, 31.43°EVolkhov — 59.90°N, 31.58°EVolkhov — 59.68°N, 30.17°EVolkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EVolkhov — 59.82°N, 32.20°EBenbolt — 35.91°N, 84.09°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.56°WBenbolt — 37.11°N, 81.52°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.27°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.67°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 36.73°N, 82.70°WLeetse — 59.75°N, 30.43°ELeetse — 59.63°N, 30.80°ELeetse — 60.03°N, 32.63°ELeetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°ELeetse — 59.98°N, 32.34°ELynna — 60.00°N, 32.56°EVolkhov Stage — 59.87°N, 31.43°EAdvance — 56.03°N, 123.35°WToila — 59.43°N, 24.73°EToila — 59.40°N, 24.61°EToila — 59.46°N, 24.91°EToila — 59.51°N, 25.79°EToila — 59.42°N, 27.01°EObukhovo — 59.87°N, 31.43°EObukhovo — 60.05°N, 32.59°EZhitai — 29.00°N, 109.00°ESillaoru — 59.87°N, 31.43°ESillaoru — 60.05°N, 32.59°EUpper Fezouata — 30.42°N, 5.85°WUpper Fezouata — 30.50°N, 5.75°WUpper Fezouata — 30.10°N, 5.80°WUpper Fezouata — 30.82°N, 5.82°WKangaroo Creek — 41.37°N, 122.69°WEdinburg — 39.02°N, 78.42°WSolvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 59.85°N, 10.47°EStinchar — 55.16°N, 4.84°WStinchar — 55.26°N, 4.30°WStinchar — 55.21°N, 4.70°WHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 108.00°EHonghuayuan — 30.10°N, 116.93°EDawan — 31.00°N, 118.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°ESan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WLeetse — 59.40°N, 24.61°ELeetse — 59.45°N, 25.18°EArline — 35.74°N, 84.13°WArline — 35.75°N, 84.13°WOranda — 38.87°N, 78.60°WJianchaogou — 32.00°N, 107.00°EMila — 35.72°N, 52.22°E

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The named rock units Paurorthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 52 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paurorthis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Paurorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,019 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 227 sites for Paurorthis, 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

47 references

Each of the 237 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. 35 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 Paurorthis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paurorthis 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 itPaurorthidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert and Cooper 1931