Isorthis (Ovalella)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IsorthisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 425 Mya.
22 occurrences of Isorthis (Ovalella) on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
22 occurrences- Ordovician23%
- Silurian77%
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
6 formations
- Becscie Formation7
- Canon de Caballeros Formation6
- Westfield Sandstone Formation5
- Vik Formation2
- Cock Rig Formation1
- Wether Law Linn Formation1
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The named rock units Isorthis (Ovalella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Isorthis (Ovalella) and its relatives
SilurianWhere Isorthis (Ovalella) and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Leptaena7 sites
- Sphaerirhynchia7 sites
- Bryozoa6 sites
- Delthyris6 sites
- Eospirifer6 sites
- Resserella6 sites
- Amerista5 sites
- Atrypa5 sites
- Dalejina5 sites
- Eospirigerina5 sites
- Fardenia (Coolinia)5 sites
- Leptaena quadrilatera5 sites
- Meristina5 sites
- Strophonella5 sites
- Amphistrophia (Amphistrophiella)4 sites
- Nucleospira4 sites
- Rhynchonellidae4 sites
- Craniops3 sites
- Cryptospira intraplicata3 sites
- Mclearnites3 sites
- Rugosa3 sites
- Acernaspis (Eskaspis) sufferta2 sites
- Anthozoa2 sites
- Cathaysiorthis enorme2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Isorthis (Ovalella), 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
9 references- European province Late Silurian brachiopods from the Ciudad Victoria area, Tamaulipas, northeastern Mexico6
- Llandovery (Early Silurian) orthide brachiopod associations from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada5
- Articulate brachiopods from the Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Tasmania4
- Upper Llandovery fossil associations in the Pentland HIlls, Scotland2
- Origin and evolution of the early Silurian (Rhuddanian) virgianid pentameride brachiopods - the extinction recovery fauna from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada1
- Early Silurian (Llandovery) orthide brachiopods from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: the O/S extinction recovery fauna1
- Silurian communities of the Oslo Region, Norway1
- The Llandovery enteletacean brachiopods of the central Oslo region, Norway1
- The base of the Silurian System in Tasmania1
Each of the 22 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.
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No picture of Isorthis (Ovalella) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Isorthis (Ovalella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Isorthis (Ovalella) 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. Walmsley and Boucot 1975