Sulevorthis playfairi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SulevorthisPBDB
- 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 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Sulevorthis playfairi 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.
Found in
3 formations
- Craighead Formation · Ardwell Group3
- Bardahessiagh Formation1
- Kirkcolm Formation1
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The named rock units Sulevorthis playfairi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sulevorthis playfairi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sulevorthis playfairi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Anisopleurella3 sites
- Anoptambonites grayae3 sites
- Bilobia etheridgei3 sites
- Glyptorthis balclatchiensis3 sites
- Hesperorthis craigensis3 sites
- Bimuria youngiana2 sites
- Camerella2 sites
- Catazyga arcana2 sites
- Christiania perrugata2 sites
- Colaptomena concentrica2 sites
- Dactylogonia homostriata2 sites
- Eodinobolus dixonensis2 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata2 sites
- Eridorthis2 sites
- Glossella2 sites
- Hesperorthis2 sites
- Isophragma pseudoretroflexum2 sites
- Leptellina llandeiloensis2 sites
- Orbiculoidea stincharensis2 sites
- Oxoplecia2 sites
- Oxoplecia andersoni2 sites
- Oxoplecia subborealis2 sites
- Pachyglossella2 sites
- Paucicrura eximia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sulevorthis playfairi, 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- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda3
- Late Ordovician (Katian) brachiopods from the Southern Uplands of Scotland: biogeographic patterns on the edge of Laurentia1
- The Ordovician Brachiopoda from Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sulevorthis playfairi 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 Sulevorthis playfairi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sulevorthis playfairi 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 itSulevorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reed 1917)