Vallatotheca

No picture of Vallatotheca 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 Vallatotheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProplinidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Tryblidiida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tryblidiida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Tryblidiida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tergomya

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 508 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 511.2 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 8 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 6 of 8 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 8 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 8 occurrencesDevonian513–510 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences510–506 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–443 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences416–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences508 Mya413.02 Mya513 Mya409 Mya

8 occurrences of Vallatotheca 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

8 occurrences

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

Lexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WLexington Limestone — 37.67°N, 84.94°WLexington Limestone — 37.77°N, 84.61°WGeorgian Bay — 45.74°N, 81.61°WLilydale Limestone — 37.82°S, 144.97°ECoonigan — 31.31°S, 142.18°E

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The named rock units Vallatotheca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Vallatotheca and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Vallatotheca and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Vallatotheca, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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 Vallatotheca 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 Vallatotheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Vallatotheca 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 itProplinidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1914