Eoorthis indianola
No picture of Eoorthis indianola 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 Eoorthis indianola, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EoorthisPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Eoorthis indianola on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
7 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Eoorthis indianola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eoorthis indianola and its relatives
CambrianWhere Eoorthis indianola and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Orygmaspis contracta4 sites
- Eoorthis remnicha3 sites
- Taenicephalus shumardi2 sites
- Irvingella major1 site
- Maustonia nasuta1 site
- Olenaspella occidentalis1 site
- Parabolinoides granulosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eoorthis indianola, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Trilobites from the upper part of the Deadwood Formation (Upper Franconian and Trempealeauan stages, Upper Cambrain), Black Hills, South Dakota4
- Upper Cambrian and Lowest Ordovician Articulate Brachiopods from the Arbuckle and Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma2
- High-Resolution Biostratigraphy in the Upper Cambrian ore hill Member of Gatesburg Formation, South-Central Pennsylvnia1
Each of the 7 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 Eoorthis indianola 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 Eoorthis indianola, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eoorthis indianola was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itEoorthis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1905)