Isorthis

Searched as Isorthis (Ovalella) natiscoteki. The Paleobiology Database treats Isorthis as the accepted name.

Isorthis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IsorthinaePBDB
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 most 2.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 440.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Isorthis 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

1 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

1 formation

Becscie — 49.72°N, 63.33°W

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The named rock units Isorthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Isorthis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Isorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,886 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 501 sites for Isorthis, and this reads 240 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Isorthis

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

No 3D scan of Isorthis 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 itIsorthinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozlowski 1929