Sulcatorthis
No picture of Sulcatorthis 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 Sulcatorthis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthidaePBDB
- 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 9.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 468 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 452.8 Mya.
4 occurrences of Sulcatorthis 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Sulcatorthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sulcatorthis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sulcatorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Euorthisina3 sites
- Orbiculoidea3 sites
- Protoskenidioides3 sites
- Dolerorthis2 sites
- Eodiorthelasma2 sites
- Lepidorthis typicalis2 sites
- Nereidella2 sites
- Paralenorthis serica2 sites
- Tritoechia2 sites
- Yangtzeella (Yangtzeella) poloi2 sites
- ? Protocycloceroides sp.1 site
- Amorphognathus1 site
- Anisopleurella yichangensis1 site
- Atelelasmoidea typica1 site
- Baltoniodus1 site
- Bilobia yichangensis1 site
- Carolinites1 site
- Chisiloceras1 site
- Christiania huanghuaensis1 site
- Dedzetina1 site
- Diambonioidea transversa1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Diorthelasma1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sulcatorthis, 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
3 references- Brachiopod diversification during the Early–Mid Ordovician: an example from the Dawan Formation, Yichang area, central China2
- Late Ordovician (Caradoc-Ashgill) Brachiopod Faunas with Foliomena Based on Data from China1
- Biostratigraphy of the Yangtze Gorge Area. Part (2) Early Paleozoic Era1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Sulcatorthis 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 Sulcatorthis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sulcatorthis 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 itOrthidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.