Isorthis crassa

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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 6.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 433.5 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.8 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
11 occurrences of Isorthis crassa 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
11 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Middle Geluva Formation2
- Halla Beds Formation1
- Hemse Beds Formation1
- Velise Formation1
- Jaani Formation1
- Paadla Formation1
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The named rock units Isorthis crassa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Isorthis crassa and its relatives
SilurianWhere Isorthis crassa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Atrypa4 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus4 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula4 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Calymene3 sites
- Gypidula galeata3 sites
- Howellella elegans3 sites
- Jonesea grayi3 sites
- Leptaena3 sites
- Protochonetes minimus3 sites
- Sphaerirhynchia3 sites
- Dalejina hybrida2 sites
- Dayia navicula2 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata2 sites
- Dicoelosia baltica2 sites
- Dicoelosia biloba2 sites
- Dictyonella capewellii2 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) penkillensis2 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus2 sites
- Glassia2 sites
- Homoeospira baylei2 sites
- Howellites2 sites
- Kozlowskiellina deltidialis2 sites
- Levenea canaliculata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Isorthis crassa, 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
5 references- New data on the stratigraphy and correlation of the South - East Baltic Wenlockian and Ludlovian (Silurian)4
- Silurian brachiopods Dictyonellida, Strophomenida, Productida, Orthotetida, Protorthida and Orthida from Estonia3
- A review of Silurian brachiopods from Gotland2
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia1
- Communities and Biozones in the Baltic Silurian1
Each of the 11 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 Isorthis crassa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Isorthis crassa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itIsorthis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1861)