Nanorthis

Nanorthis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlectorthidaePBDB
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 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 3 of 114 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 111 of 114 occurrencesOrdovician498–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 1 occurrence487–486 Mya — about 8 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 10 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 10 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 11 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 10 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 10 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 10 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 8 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 7 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 6 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 6 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 5 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 4 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 4 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486.85 Mya461.1 Mya497.8 Mya457.4 Mya

114 occurrences of Nanorthis 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

114 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

42 formations

Deadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 47.15°N, 110.22°WDeadwood — 47.98°N, 102.92°WDeadwood — 46.87°N, 103.30°WGoodwin — 39.10°N, 116.26°WGoodwin — 39.20°N, 116.25°WGoodwin — 37.12°N, 116.50°WGoodwin — 38.28°N, 116.42°WGoodwin — 36.65°N, 116.17°WGoodwin — 39.50°N, 115.99°WFlorentine Valley — 42.73°S, 146.43°EFlorentine Valley — 42.72°S, 146.48°EHonghuayuan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 119.00°ESan Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WCoquena — 23.73°S, 65.48°WKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°ETongzi — 29.00°N, 107.00°ETongzi — 28.00°N, 109.00°ETongzi — 28.00°N, 105.00°EGarden City — 42.11°N, 111.63°WGarden City — 41.92°N, 112.15°WGarden City — 41.52°N, 111.94°WFillmore Limestone — 38.92°N, 113.36°WFillmore Limestone — 38.82°N, 113.44°WLeetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°ELeetse — 59.87°N, 31.43°ETrenice — 50.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 58.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 55.58°N, 14.13°ELunshan — 32.00°N, 119.00°ELunshan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EAcoite — 24.00°S, 66.00°WAcoite — 22.30°S, 65.30°WUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 116.00°EUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 118.00°ENyaiskii — 68.00°N, 88.00°ENyaiskii — 60.00°N, 118.00°EAspero — 24.80°S, 65.38°WFillmore — 38.90°N, 113.35°WFillmore — 39.22°N, 113.40°WUigur — 68.00°N, 88.82°EMons — 50.63°N, 116.05°WMons — 50.78°N, 116.05°WSurvey Peak — 52.03°N, 116.84°WHouse — 38.88°N, 113.44°WFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°E

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The named rock units Nanorthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nanorthis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Nanorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

600 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 114 sites for Nanorthis, 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

45 references

Each of the 114 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. 33 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 Nanorthis

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

No 3D scan of Nanorthis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Cooper 1936