Dolerorthis flabellites

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DolerorthisPBDB
- 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 7.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
31 occurrences of Dolerorthis flabellites 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
31 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
8 formations
- Laketown Dolomite Formation10
- Rochester Formation · Clinton Group10
- Irondequoit Formation · Clinton Group3
- La Vieille Formation · Chaleurs Group2
- Anse Cascon Formation · Chaleurs Group1
- Reynales Formation · Mediana Group1
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The named rock units Dolerorthis flabellites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dolerorthis flabellites and its relatives
SilurianWhere Dolerorthis flabellites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
257 taxa- Atrypa reticularis17 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis16 sites
- Dalmanella14 sites
- Dalmanites13 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis13 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus13 sites
- Atrypa11 sites
- Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda10 sites
- Chasmatopora10 sites
- Dawsonoceras annulatum10 sites
- Pterinea10 sites
- Schuchertella10 sites
- Camarotoechia9 sites
- Camarotoechia neglecta9 sites
- Enterolasma9 sites
- Spirifer9 sites
- Cytherina spinosa8 sites
- Fenestella8 sites
- Homalonotus8 sites
- Whitfieldella nitida8 sites
- Beyrichia7 sites
- Mesotrypa7 sites
- Platyceras niagarensis7 sites
- Whitfieldella7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Dolerorthis flabellites, 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
9 references- The Clinton of Western and Central New York14
- Late Ordovician and Silurian of the eastern Great Basin Part 4. Late Llandovery and Wenlock brachiopods7
- Biostratigraphic reconnaissance in the Lower Palaeozoic of western North Greenland2
- The Late Ordovician and Silurian of the Eastern Great Basin, Part 3. Brachiopods of the Tony Grove Lake Member of the Laketown Dolomite2
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port Daniel-Black Cape Region, Gaspé2
- Some Wenlockian-Geddinian, chiefly brachiopod dominated communities of North America1
- Gaspé Peninsula, Baie des Chaleurs area1
- Redescription of Clintonella Hall (Silurian, Brachiopoda)1
- Osgood (Niagaran) bryozoans from the type area1
Each of the 31 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 Dolerorthis flabellites
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No 3D scan of Dolerorthis flabellites 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 itDolerorthis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Foerste 1889)