Clorinda rotunda

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClorindaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 423 Mya.
12 occurrences of Clorinda rotunda on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
12 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
7 formations
- Attawapiskat Formation5
- Upper Visby Formation2
- Lower Visby Beds Formation1
- Hogklint Formation1
- Chicotte Formation1
- Lower Visby Formation1
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The named rock units Clorinda rotunda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clorinda rotunda and its relatives
SilurianWhere Clorinda rotunda and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus3 sites
- Howellella elegans3 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa3 sites
- Plectatrypa lamellosa3 sites
- Boiotremus longitudinalis2 sites
- Coolinia pecten2 sites
- Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis2 sites
- Dalejina phaseola2 sites
- Dicoelosia verneuiliana2 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus2 sites
- Isorthis loveni2 sites
- Katastrophomena scabrosa2 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) segmentum2 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula2 sites
- Oriostoma roemeri2 sites
- Plectatrypa (Plectatrypa) imbricata2 sites
- Prosoptychus sphaera2 sites
- Sphaerirhynchia2 sites
- Visbyella visbyensis2 sites
- Zygatrypa exigua2 sites
- Amphistrophia whittardi1 site
- Anapetopsis fasciatus1 site
- Atrypa hedei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Clorinda rotunda, 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
5 references- A review of Silurian brachiopods from Gotland4
- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian3
- Early Silurian brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec3
- Silurian reef-dwelling brachiopods and their ecologic implications1
- Communities and Biozones in the Baltic Silurian1
Each of the 12 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 Clorinda rotunda
- 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 Clorinda rotunda 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 itClorinda through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1861)