Archaeorthis altaica
No picture of Archaeorthis altaica 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 Archaeorthis altaica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeorthisPBDB
- 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 most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Archaeorthis altaica 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
11 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 Archaeorthis altaica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeorthis altaica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Archaeorthis altaica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
122 taxa- Eorobergia4 sites
- Atelelasma3 sites
- Bathyurellus3 sites
- Carolinites3 sites
- Ceraurinella frequens3 sites
- Expansograptus3 sites
- Glaphurus3 sites
- Idiostrophia3 sites
- Isograptus3 sites
- Kolymella3 sites
- Lonchodomas3 sites
- Pliomerellus3 sites
- Raymondaspis3 sites
- Trondorthis sibirica3 sites
- Amplexograptus2 sites
- Atelelasma subdorsoconvexum2 sites
- Calyptaulax2 sites
- Eoglyptograptus2 sites
- Glyptomena karasuensis2 sites
- Idiostophia costata2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Isograptus gibberulus2 sites
- Isophragma extensum2 sites
- Isotelus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Archaeorthis altaica, 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- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai7
- Llandeylovskiye brakhiopodovye kompleksy Mongolskogo i Gornogo Altaya. Llandeilian brachiopods assemblages of Mongolian and Gorny Altai.3
- Middle Ordovician of the Gorny Altai: Litho-Biostratigraphy and Justification of Boundaries of Regional Units1
Each of the 11 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 Archaeorthis altaica 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 Archaeorthis altaica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeorthis altaica 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 itArchaeorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rozman and Severgina 1983