Heterorthina

Heterorthina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterorthidaePBDB
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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 82 of 84 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 84 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 16 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 7 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 4 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 8 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 9 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 22 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461 Mya438.6 Mya472.1 Mya432.1 Mya

84 occurrences of Heterorthina 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

84 occurrences

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

32 formations

Lexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.77°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.23°N, 84.85°WMiamitown — 39.30°N, 84.40°WFonte da Horta — 40.00°N, 8.00°WFonte da Horta — 41.00°N, 8.00°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WNavas de Estena — 39.47°N, 4.48°WScales Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WPizarras Guindo — 38.70°N, 3.77°WPizarras Guindo — 38.62°N, 3.68°WJerrestad Shale — 57.78°N, 14.18°EJerrestad Shale — 55.54°N, 14.29°EBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBellevue — 39.30°N, 84.40°WLexington Ls — 37.65°N, 84.77°WDubuque — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WCarregueira — 40.00°N, 8.00°WCarregueira — 39.00°N, 8.00°WCastillejo — 41.00°N, 1.00°WCastillejo — 41.15°N, 1.21°WWhitby — 45.50°N, 81.00°WWhitby — 43.88°N, 78.86°WJupiter — 49.54°N, 63.31°WJupiter — 49.55°N, 63.35°WGorran Quartzites — 50.49°N, 4.66°WZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°ECaparo — 8.00°N, 71.00°WPostolonnec — 48.00°N, 4.00°WAndouille — 48.00°N, 1.00°WCabril — 40.00°N, 8.00°WSueve Shale — 43.47°N, 5.06°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WGroos Quarry — 46.35°N, 85.52°W

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The named rock units Heterorthina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heterorthina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Heterorthina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

750 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Heterorthina, 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

35 references

Each of the 84 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. 23 further references are not listed. 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 Heterorthina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Heterorthina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bancroft 1928