Apheoorthis

A picture published with the record for Apheoorthis.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 491.5 Mya to 465.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 493.5 Mya to 458 Mya.

Cambrian — about 7 of 69 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 62 of 69 occurrencesOrdovician494–493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 1 occurrence489–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 7 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 7 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 6 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 5 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 5 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 5 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 5 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 5 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491.5 Mya465.9 Mya494.2 Mya457.3 Mya

69 occurrences of Apheoorthis 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

69 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

30 formations

Deadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 46.87°N, 103.30°WTongzi — 28.00°N, 107.00°ETongzi — 29.00°N, 107.00°EHouse — 38.88°N, 113.44°WHouse — 38.70°N, 113.52°WNya — 68.00°N, 88.82°ENya — 68.12°N, 86.53°ETucumilla — 21.67°S, 64.67°WTucumilla — 21.53°S, 66.75°WTucumilla — 21.48°S, 64.97°WKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°ELatorp — 58.00°N, 14.00°EHonghuayuan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EHonghuayuan — 29.00°N, 107.00°EUjgur — 68.00°N, 88.00°EFlorentine Valley — 42.73°S, 146.43°EFlorentine Valley — 42.72°S, 146.48°EKirtonryggen — 79.85°N, 17.68°EWilberns — 31.00°N, 99.26°WHighgate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EFengxiang — 32.00°N, 118.00°ELunshan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EIl'tyk — 68.00°N, 88.00°EIl’tyk — 68.00°N, 88.00°ETaique — 23.70°S, 66.33°WNinemile — 36.65°N, 116.17°WHouse Limestone — 38.92°N, 113.36°WZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EBestogai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EUigur — 68.00°N, 88.82°E

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The named rock units Apheoorthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apheoorthis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Apheoorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

300 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Apheoorthis, 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

32 references

Each of the 69 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. 20 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Apheoorthis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.