Taphrorthis peculiaris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TaphrorthisPBDB
- 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 900 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.
6 occurrences of Taphrorthis peculiaris 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
6 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Taphrorthis peculiaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Taphrorthis peculiaris and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Taphrorthis peculiaris and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
140 taxa- Phragmorthis buttsi5 sites
- Ptychopleurella rectangulata5 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus5 sites
- Bimuria buttsi4 sites
- Christiania sulcata4 sites
- Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata4 sites
- Lingulella4 sites
- Nothorthis tarda4 sites
- Paurorthis fasciculata4 sites
- Ptychoglyptus virginiensis4 sites
- Craspedelia marginata3 sites
- Glyptambonites glyptus3 sites
- Isophragma extensum3 sites
- Laticrura pionodema3 sites
- Skenidioides costatus3 sites
- Xenambonites undosus3 sites
- Camerella minuta2 sites
- Christiania subquadrata2 sites
- Conotreta2 sites
- Cyrtonotella subfissicosta2 sites
- Elliptoglossa ovalis2 sites
- Eremotoechia silicica2 sites
- Gacella insolita2 sites
- Glyptomena trippi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Taphrorthis peculiaris, 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
- Chazyan and related brachiopods2
- On an exposure of the Ordovician superstes Mudstones at Colmonell, Girvan District, Strathclyde1
Each of the 6 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 Taphrorthis peculiaris 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 Taphrorthis peculiaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Taphrorthis peculiaris 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.
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What may have been alongside itTaphrorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956