Mirorthis mira
No picture of Mirorthis mira 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 Mirorthis mira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MirorthisPBDB
- 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 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 440.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Mirorthis mira 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician80%
- Silurian20%
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
4 formations
- Kuanyinchiao Formation2
- Skelgill Formation1
- Wang Tong Formation1
- Hwe Mawng Formation · Naungkangyi Group1
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The named rock units Mirorthis mira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mirorthis mira and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Mirorthis mira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Hirnantia sagittifera4 sites
- Dalmanella testudinaria3 sites
- Kinnella medlicotti3 sites
- Paromalomena macmahoni3 sites
- Plectothyrella crassicosta3 sites
- Aegiromena (Aegiromenella) planissima2 sites
- Cliftonia2 sites
- Draborthis caelebs2 sites
- Eostropheodonta parvicostellata2 sites
- Hindella incipiens2 sites
- Leonaspis2 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) trifidum2 sites
- Onniella yichangensis2 sites
- Aegiromena1 site
- Bellerophontida1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Cliftonia obovata1 site
- Cliftonia psittacina1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyclospira1 site
- Dalmanella1 site
- Dalmanitina1 site
- Dolerorthis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mirorthis mira, 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
4 references- Late Ordovician to earliest Silurian graptolite and brachiopod biozonation from the Yangtze region, South China, with global correlation2
- The latest Ordovician Hirnantia brachiopod Fauna of Myanmar: Significance of new data from the Mandalay Region1
- A relict Ordovician brachiopod fauna from the Parakidograptus acuminatus Biozone (Lower Silurian) of the English Lake District1
- A new Hirnantia fauna from Thailand and the biogeography of the latest Ordovician of south-east Asia1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Mirorthis mira 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 Mirorthis mira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mirorthis mira 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 itMirorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zeng 1983