Astraborthis
No picture of Astraborthis 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 Astraborthis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnomalorthidaePBDB
- 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 486.4 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Astraborthis 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Astraborthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astraborthis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Astraborthis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Monobolina2 sites
- Palaeoglossa2 sites
- Anebolithus1 site
- Apsotreta1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Bergamia1 site
- Cnemidopyge1 site
- Cyclopyge1 site
- Dalmanella1 site
- Desmorthis1 site
- Diparelasma1 site
- Ectillaenus1 site
- Euorthisina1 site
- Hesperonomia1 site
- Lampazarorthis brachymyaria1 site
- Lipanorthis andinus1 site
- Lordshillia1 site
- Macrogrammus1 site
- Myttonia1 site
- Neseuretus1 site
- Nocturnellia1 site
- Obolus1 site
- Orthambonites1 site
- Orthambonites proava1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Astraborthis, 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- Tremadoc (earliest Ordovician) brachiopods from Purmamarca and the Sierra de Mojotoro, Cordillera Oriental of northwestern Argentina1
- Early Ordovician (Arenig) stratigraphy and faunas of the Carmarthen District, southwest Wales1
- Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Astraborthis 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 Astraborthis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astraborthis 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 itAnomalorthidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.