Donaldiella dorothea
No picture of Donaldiella dorothea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Donaldiella dorothea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DonaldiellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Donaldiella dorothea 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
2 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 Donaldiella dorothea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Donaldiella dorothea and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Donaldiella dorothea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Donaldiella derwiduii2 sites
- Lophospira perangulata2 sites
- Lophospira rectistriata2 sites
- Acodus1 site
- Armenoceras1 site
- Cordylodus1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Cycloceras1 site
- Cyrtonybyoceras1 site
- Disacodus sp.1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Eccyliomphalus tangshanensis1 site
- Eobelodella sp.1 site
- Eoplacognathus1 site
- Kotoceras1 site
- Labechia1 site
- Leptochirognathus1 site
- Lophospira terrassa1 site
- Mysterioceras1 site
- Oistodus1 site
- Ormoceras1 site
- Ozarkodina1 site
- Panderodus1 site
- Pararmenoceras sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Donaldiella dorothea, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Donaldiella dorothea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Donaldiella dorothea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Donaldiella dorothea 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 itDonaldiella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Grabau 1922)