Cathaysiorthis enorme

No picture of Cathaysiorthis enorme 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 Cathaysiorthis enorme, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CathaysiorthisPBDB
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 2.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.7 Mya442.6 Mya

4 occurrences of Cathaysiorthis enorme 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

4 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

1 formation

Westfield Sandstone — 42.63°S, 146.50°E

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The named rock units Cathaysiorthis enorme has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cathaysiorthis enorme and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cathaysiorthis enorme and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cathaysiorthis enorme, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Cathaysiorthis enorme 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 Cathaysiorthis enorme, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cathaysiorthis enorme 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 itCathaysiorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Laurie 1991)