Altaethyrella zhejiangensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AltaethyrellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Altaethyrella zhejiangensis 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
18 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 Altaethyrella zhejiangensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Altaethyrella zhejiangensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Altaethyrella zhejiangensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Antizygospira liquanensis12 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sinensis12 sites
- Schachriomonia dichotoma11 sites
- Eospirigerina yulangensis6 sites
- Mimella zhejiangensis6 sites
- Deloprosopus jiangshanensis5 sites
- Triplesia zhejiangensis5 sites
- Kassinella (Kassinella) shiyangensis4 sites
- Strophomena4 sites
- Eospirifer praecursor3 sites
- Skenidioides3 sites
- Christiania magna2 sites
- Eosotrophina uniplicata2 sites
- Plectorthis2 sites
- Sowerbyella (Rugosowerbyella) dianbianensis2 sites
- Cornulites1 site
- Cyclospira1 site
- Foliomena folium1 site
- Metambonites meritus1 site
- Oichnus1 site
- Tashanomena variabilis1 site
- Wangyuella ventribiconvexa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Altaethyrella zhejiangensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Late Ordovician brachiopod communities of southeast China17
- Cornulitid epibionts on brachiopod shells from the Late Ordovician (middle Ashgill) of East China1
Each of the 18 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 Altaethyrella zhejiangensis 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 Altaethyrella zhejiangensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Altaethyrella zhejiangensis 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 itAltaethyrella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang 1964