Horderleyella

Rõõmusoks · 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
- HarknessellidaePBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.4 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
118 occurrences of Horderleyella 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
118 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
37 formations
- Kahula Formation13
- Ffairfach Flags and Grits Formation · Ffairfach Group11
- Flags and Grits Formation11
- Keila Formation9
- Dashaba Formation5
- Tommarp Formation3
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The named rock units Horderleyella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Horderleyella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Horderleyella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
486 taxa- Dalmanella parva28 sites
- Trepostomata26 sites
- Basilicus tyrannus24 sites
- Bryozoa24 sites
- Hyalostelia22 sites
- Crinoidea20 sites
- Rostricellula17 sites
- Trilobita17 sites
- Macrocoelia llandeiloensis15 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua14 sites
- Tallinnella14 sites
- Triplesia edgelliana14 sites
- Brachiopoda13 sites
- Sowerbyella13 sites
- Onniella12 sites
- Flexicalymene cambrensis11 sites
- Marrolithus11 sites
- Prasopora11 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) forumi11 sites
- Cryptostomata10 sites
- Platystrophia10 sites
- Clinambon anomalus8 sites
- Neoplatystrophia lynx8 sites
- Nicolella8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Horderleyella, 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
32 references- Benthic palaeocommunities represented in the Ffairfach Group and coeval Ordovician successions of Wales28
- Rukovodyashchaya fauna brakhiopod ordovikskikh otlozhenij severo-sapadnoy chasti russkoj platformy15
- Age, facies, and geometry of the Sandbian/Katian (Upper Ordovician) pelmatozoan-bryozoan-receptaculitid reefs of the Vasalemma Formation, northern Estonia12
- Lithology and Fauna of the Caradoc series type sections in North Estonia8
- Ordovician brachiopods Enteletacea of the east baltic area7
- Brachiopods from the Dashaba Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Sichuan Province, south-west China5
- The geology of the Baltic Republics5
- Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire4
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)3
- Upper Ordovician Brachiopods from Västergötland, Sweden3
- Pecularities of the lithology and fauna of the early Katian (Ordovician) in the Lithuanian facies zone2
- Late Ordovician brachiopods from Peru and their palaeobiogeographical relationships2
Each of the 118 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. 20 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 Horderleyella
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Rõõmusoks
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Horderleyella 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 itHarknessellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bancroft 1928