Grorudia

Hints, Linda · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
- GrorudiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 1.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 456.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.1 Mya to 452.8 Mya.
15 occurrences of Grorudia 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
15 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
8 formations
- Arnestad Formation4
- Vollen Formation3
- Tramore Limestone Formation · Duncannon Group2
- Persnas Formation1
- Folkeslunda Formation1
- Elnes Formation1
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The named rock units Grorudia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Grorudia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Grorudia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
167 taxa- Asaphus5 sites
- Remopleurides5 sites
- Ancistroceras4 sites
- Chonetoidea4 sites
- Christiania4 sites
- Pseudoasaphus4 sites
- Steusloffia4 sites
- Telephina4 sites
- Atractopyge3 sites
- Bilobia3 sites
- Brachypleura3 sites
- Euprimites3 sites
- Illaenus3 sites
- Leptellina3 sites
- Lingulata3 sites
- Lituites3 sites
- Nieszkowskia3 sites
- Nileus3 sites
- Ogygiocaris3 sites
- Onniella bancrofti3 sites
- Pararaphistoma3 sites
- Pseudobasilicus3 sites
- Pseudomegalaspis3 sites
- Sinuites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Grorudia, 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
6 references- Ordovician rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from Co. Waterford, SE Ireland: Palaeobiogeography of the Leinster Terrane3
- The late Sandbian – earliest Katian (Ordovician) brachiopod immigration and its influence on the brachiopod fauna in the Oslo Region, Norway3
- The Viruan (Middle Ordovician) of Oland3
- Unpublished notes on Norwegian Ordovician fossil occurrences compiled from various resources, primarily from the series of papers on taxa of the Middle Ordovician on the Oslo-Asker District, published in Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift2
- The Diploporita of the Oslo region, Norway2
- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway. 8. Brachiopods of the Suborder Strophomenida2
Each of the 15 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 Grorudia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Hints, Linda
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGrorudiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spjeldnaes 1957