Glyptorthis bellarugosa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlyptorthisPBDB
- 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 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
74 occurrences of Glyptorthis bellarugosa 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
74 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
25 formations
- Benbolt Formation23
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group8
- Scales Shale Formation · Maquoketa Group4
- Decorah Formation · Galena Group3
- Decorah Shale Formation · Galena Group2
- Prosser Limestone Formation2
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The named rock units Glyptorthis bellarugosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Glyptorthis bellarugosa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Glyptorthis bellarugosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
461 taxa- Oepikina minnesotensis38 sites
- Hesperorthis tricenaria34 sites
- Pseudolingula iowensis28 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra26 sites
- Paucicrura rogata23 sites
- Rafinesquina deltoidea23 sites
- Rhipidomena tennesseensis23 sites
- Isotelus gigas22 sites
- Tetradium21 sites
- Solenopora20 sites
- Dinorthis interstriata19 sites
- Dinorthis meedsi19 sites
- Dinorthis transversa19 sites
- Girvanella19 sites
- Illaenus19 sites
- Mimella globosa19 sites
- Multicostella platys19 sites
- Leperditia18 sites
- Orbiculoidea18 sites
- Rhinidictya18 sites
- Petrocrania17 sites
- Sowerbyella minnesotensis17 sites
- Acanthocrania setigera16 sites
- Ceraurus pleurexanthemus16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Glyptorthis bellarugosa, 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
11 references- Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia23
- Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area19
- Brachiopods and trilobites of the Sardeson Beds in the Twin Cities11
- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia8
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario3
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee3
- Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island2
- Stratigraphy of the Decorah Formation2
- Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic system within The Ordovician (Caradocian, Mohawkian) epeiric sea, Decorah Formation, Upper Mississippi Valley Region, USA1
- The systematics and biostratigraphy of the Brachiopoda of the Decorah Shale at St. Paul, Minnesota1
- The Brachiopoda and Ostracoda of the Chazyan1
Each of the 74 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 content1

Picture of Glyptorthis bellarugosa
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No 3D scan of Glyptorthis bellarugosa 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 itGlyptorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1843)