Paurorthis longa
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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 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Paurorthis longa 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
2 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Paurorthis longa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paurorthis longa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paurorthis longa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Isophragma extensum2 sites
- Leptellina tennesseensis2 sites
- Palaeostrophomena superba2 sites
- Platymena plana2 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata2 sites
- Bimuria superba1 site
- Christiania subquadrata1 site
- Colaptomena obesa1 site
- Dactylogonia geniculata1 site
- Eremotoechia cloudi1 site
- Eremotoechia silicica1 site
- Isophragma subabbreviatum1 site
- Laticrura1 site
- Lingulasma matutinum1 site
- Multicostella plena1 site
- Opikina glabella1 site
- Paterula perfecta1 site
- Ptychopleurella1 site
- Rhipidomena1 site
- Siphonotreta americana1 site
- Sulevorthis blountensis1 site
- Sulevorthis tennesseensis1 site
- Talasotreta alta1 site
- Taphrorthis emarginata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paurorthis longa, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Paurorthis longa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Paurorthis longa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
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. Cooper 1956