Paurorthis inflata
No picture of Paurorthis inflata 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 Paurorthis inflata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaurorthisPBDB
- 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 most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 472.1 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Paurorthis inflata 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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.
Paurorthis inflata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paurorthis inflata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Cyrtonotella semicircularis1 site
- Gonambonites imbricatus1 site
- Gonambonites latus1 site
- Lycophoria nucella1 site
- Nicolella pterygoidea1 site
- Orthambonites inaequalis1 site
- Orthambonites majuscula1 site
- Orthis callactis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Paurorthis inflata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Brakhiopody nadsemejstv Orthacea, Dalmanellacea i Syntrophiacea iz nizhnego ordovika Pribaltiki [Lower Ordovician brachiopods of the superfamilies Orthacea, Dalmanellacea and Syntrophiacea of the Eastern Baltic]4
- Ordovician brachiopods Enteletacea of the east baltic area1
Each of the 5 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
Media content0
No picture of Paurorthis inflata 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 Paurorthis inflata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paurorthis inflata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPaurorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rubel 1961