Eoorthidae

Wimanella Walcott, 1908, a relative of Eoorthidae — not Eoorthidae itself

Not Eoorthidae. This is Wimanella Walcott, 1908, a relative — both are Eoorthidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlectorthoideaPBDB
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 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 465.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 458 Mya.

Cambrian — about 66 of 162 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 96 of 162 occurrencesOrdovician516–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences512–510 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 2 occurrences507–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 3 occurrences503–501 Mya — about 3 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 2 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 3 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 10 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 10 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 11 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 10 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 10 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 18 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 15 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 14 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 14 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 12 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 4 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 5 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 4 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences509.7 Mya465.9 Mya516 Mya457 Mya

162 occurrences of Eoorthidae 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

162 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

65 formations

Deadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 44.42°N, 103.71°WDeadwood — 44.30°N, 103.65°WDeadwood — 44.20°N, 103.45°WDeadwood — 44.25°N, 103.45°WDeadwood — 46.87°N, 103.30°WTrenice — 50.00°N, 14.00°ETrenice — 49.78°N, 13.68°ETrenice — 50.58°N, 15.02°ETongzi — 28.00°N, 107.00°ETongzi — 29.00°N, 107.00°EOpen Door Limestone — 43.29°N, 109.83°WJbel Wawrmast — 29.75°N, 8.00°WHoney Creek Limestone — 34.82°N, 98.41°WHouse — 38.88°N, 113.44°WHouse — 38.70°N, 113.52°WNya — 68.00°N, 88.82°ENya — 68.12°N, 86.53°ETumugol — 37.17°N, 129.02°EKarpinsk — 72.99°N, 53.31°EOpen Door — 43.28°N, 109.83°WTucumilla — 21.67°S, 64.67°WTucumilla — 21.53°S, 66.75°WTucumilla — 21.48°S, 64.97°WYeli — 40.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 39.00°N, 113.00°EYeli — 42.00°N, 127.00°EUjgur — 68.00°N, 88.00°EJince — 49.78°N, 13.97°EJince — 49.87°N, 13.62°EJince — 49.96°N, 13.74°EKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°EAlum Shale — 59.78°N, 10.50°EAlum Shale — 59.73°N, 9.87°EReagan Sandstone — 34.82°N, 98.41°WSnowy Range — 47.15°N, 110.22°WSnowy Range — 46.87°N, 111.00°WLatorp — 58.00°N, 14.00°EHonghuayuan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EHonghuayuan — 29.00°N, 107.00°ECoonigan — 31.17°S, 141.32°EKurchavinskaya — 79.18°N, 97.30°E"Dolodrook River Limestone" — 37.60°S, 146.63°E

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The named rock units Eoorthidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eoorthidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Eoorthidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

673 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Eoorthidae, 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

65 references

Each of the 162 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. 53 further references are not listed. 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 Wimanella Walcott, 1908

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eoorthidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1908