Eridorthis australis
No picture of Eridorthis australis 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 Eridorthis australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EridorthisPBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.3 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Eridorthis australis 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
10 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
5 formations
- Vandon Limestone Formation · Cliefden Caves Limestone Group5
- Billabong Creek Limestone Formation2
- Quondong Limestone Formation1
- Belubula Formation1
- Regans Creek Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Eridorthis australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eridorthis australis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eridorthis australis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Molongcola variabilis6 sites
- Ptychopleurella decretoria6 sites
- Rhynchotrema oepiki6 sites
- Australispira5 sites
- Chaganella speciosa5 sites
- Mabella halis5 sites
- Sowerbyites isotes5 sites
- Trigrammaria ampla5 sites
- Zygospira5 sites
- Bowanorthis fragilis4 sites
- Doleroides mixticius4 sites
- Phaceloorthis decoris4 sites
- Quondongia alitis4 sites
- Christiania skolia3 sites
- Dinorthis hadra3 sites
- Ecclimadictyon3 sites
- Geniculomena barnesi3 sites
- Hillophyllum3 sites
- Parastrophina3 sites
- Parkesolithus3 sites
- Paromalomena zheni3 sites
- Pliomerina3 sites
- Shlyginia rectangularis3 sites
- Skenidioides3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Eridorthis australis, 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 10 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 Eridorthis australis 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 Eridorthis australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eridorthis australis 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 itEridorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Percival 1991