Gotlandochiton
Gotlandochiton is an extinct genus of polyplacophoran mollusc. Gotlandochiton became extinct during the Silurian period.
No picture of Gotlandochiton was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gotlandochiton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GotlandochitonidaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 430.6 Mya.
4 occurrences of Gotlandochiton 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician75%
- Silurian25%
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
2 formations
- Kindblade Formation · Arbuckle Group3
- Slite Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Gotlandochiton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gotlandochiton and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Gotlandochiton and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- <Stromatolite>2 sites
- Archaeoscyphia annulata2 sites
- Calathium2 sites
- Girvanella2 sites
- Hormotoma2 sites
- Mcqueenoceras2 sites
- Renalcis2 sites
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Campbelloceras1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Eochiton arbucklensis1 site
- Finkelnburgia1 site
- Ivoechiton1 site
- Ivoechiton calathicolus1 site
- Ivoechiton oklahomensis1 site
- Paleochiton kindbladensis1 site
- Pulchrilamina1 site
- Shumardoceras1 site
- Trilobita1 site
- Vermiporella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gotlandochiton, 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
2 references- Chitons from the Kindblade Formation (Lower Ordovician), Arbuckle Mountains, southern Oklahoma3
- Silurian polyplacophoran molluscs from Gotland, Sweden1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Gotlandochiton was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gotlandochiton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGotlandochitonidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bergenhayn 1955