Dysprosorthis
No picture of Dysprosorthis 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 Dysprosorthis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChrustenoporidaePBDB
- 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 7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.1 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Dysprosorthis 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
6 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Dysprosorthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dysprosorthis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Dysprosorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Kinnella medlicotti4 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) trifidum4 sites
- Dalmanitina3 sites
- Draborthis caelebs3 sites
- Hirnantia sagittifera3 sites
- Onniella yichangensis3 sites
- Paromalomena macmahoni3 sites
- Triplesia yichangensis3 sites
- Acanthocrania2 sites
- Dalmanella testudinaria2 sites
- Eostropheodonta parvicostellata2 sites
- Hindella incipiens2 sites
- Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus2 sites
- Orthidae2 sites
- Pseudolingulopsis sp.2 sites
- Strophomenidae2 sites
- Aegiromena1 site
- Aegiromena (Aegiromenella) planissima1 site
- Allodesma1 site
- Brongniartella platynota1 site
- Cliftonia obovata1 site
- Colpomya1 site
- Cuneamya1 site
- Cyrtodonta suecica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dysprosorthis, 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 to earliest Silurian graptolite and brachiopod biozonation from the Yangtze region, South China, with global correlation3
- Late Ordovician shelly faunas from Jämtland: palaeocommunity development along the margin of the Swedish Caledonides2
- Earliest occurrence of the Hirnantia Fauna in the Prague Basin (Czech Republic)1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Dysprosorthis 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 Dysprosorthis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dysprosorthis 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 itChrustenoporidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rong 1984