Aporthophyla
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TaffiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
43 occurrences of Aporthophyla 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
43 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
12 formations
- Uzunbulak Formation10
- Lower Chiatsun Formation9
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group8
- Lower Setul Formation3
- Alakul Formation2
- Lower Chaitsun Formation2
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The named rock units Aporthophyla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aporthophyla and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Aporthophyla and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
197 taxa- Paralenorthis costata9 sites
- Nanambonites paucus7 sites
- Pomatotrema fecunda7 sites
- Leptellina subquadrata6 sites
- Xizangostrophia sinensis6 sites
- Apatomorpha cita5 sites
- Martellia reliqua5 sites
- Paralenorthis rgaitensis5 sites
- Rafinesquinidae5 sites
- Aporthophylina intermedia4 sites
- Christiania hastata4 sites
- Maclurites4 sites
- Oxostrophomena dubia4 sites
- Paralenorthis minusculus4 sites
- Tuvinia fasciculata4 sites
- Annamitella3 sites
- Archaeorthis major3 sites
- Deceptrix3 sites
- Eoleperditia3 sites
- Illaenus3 sites
- Leperditella3 sites
- Nileus3 sites
- Oistodus3 sites
- Pseudomera3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Aporthophyla, 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
13 references- Middle Ordovician Aporthophyla brachiopod fauna from the roof of the world, southern Tibet11
- Mid Ordovician (Darriwilian) brachiopods of South Kazakhstan10
- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada7
- Biogeographic significance of Ordovician brachiopods from Thailand and Malaysia4
- Brachiopods of the redefined family Tritoechiidae from the Ordovician of Kazakhstan and South Urals2
- Classification and review of the brachiopod superfamily Plectambonitacea2
- Brachiopods and trilobites from the Ordovician Lower Hovin Group (Arenig/Llanvirn), Hølonda area, Trondheim Region, Norway: new and revised taxa and paleogeographic interpretation1
- Regional Geology of GuangXi ZhuangZu ZiZhi Zhou1
- Stratigraphic table of northwestern region of China: XinJiang Province part1
- Regional stratigraphic tables of the north western China region: Volume of NinXia Province1
- Early Middle Ordovician fossils from the Hølonda area, Trondheim Region, Norway1
- Stratigraphy of Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Subsurface Sequence in Williston Basin1
Each of the 43 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. 1 further reference is 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
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No picture of Aporthophyla 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 Aporthophyla, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aporthophyla 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 itTaffiinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Cooper 1938