Barbarorthis laurentina

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BarbarorthisPBDB
- 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 least 300 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
18 occurrences of Barbarorthis laurentina 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 Barbarorthis laurentina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Barbarorthis laurentina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Barbarorthis laurentina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Onniella tricapitata15 sites
- Hebertella maria13 sites
- Mendacella uberis12 sites
- Eochonetes glabra11 sites
- Plaesiomys anticostiensis11 sites
- Coolinia gamachiana10 sites
- Leptaena quadrilatera10 sites
- Hindella umbonata9 sites
- Vinlandostrophia regularis8 sites
- Eospirigerina7 sites
- Sowerbyella (Eochonetes)6 sites
- Parastrophinella reversa5 sites
- Hypsiptycha anticostiensis4 sites
- Vellamo diversa4 sites
- Eostrophonella semiovalis2 sites
- Pseudolingula elegantula2 sites
- Rhynchotrema nutrix2 sites
- Sowerbyella2 sites
- Strophomena2 sites
- Aphanomena planoconvexa1 site
- Archeochonetes muirwoodae1 site
- Craniops1 site
- Eurogrewingkia pulchella1 site
- Hindella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Barbarorthis laurentina, 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- Late Ordovician Orthide and Billingsellide Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada: Diversity Change Through Mass Extinction16
- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian1
- Late Ordovician and Early Silurian strophomenid brachiopods of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada1
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. 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 Barbarorthis laurentina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Barbarorthis laurentina was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itBarbarorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1857)