Orbiculoidea capuliformis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrbiculoideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lingulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lingulida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lingulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 312.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 306 Mya.
9 occurrences of Orbiculoidea capuliformis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
9 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Bird Spring Formation2
- Pottsville Formation2
- Cherokee Shale Formation1
- Illipah Formation1
- Flechado Formation1
- Krebs Formation · Cherokee Group1
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The named rock units Orbiculoidea capuliformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Orbiculoidea capuliformis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Orbiculoidea capuliformis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
239 taxa- Composita subtilita6 sites
- Anthracospirifer occiduus5 sites
- Anthracospirifer3 sites
- Antiquatonia3 sites
- Composita3 sites
- Composita ovata3 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina3 sites
- Juresania3 sites
- Linoproductus3 sites
- Neospirifer3 sites
- Neospirifer cameratus3 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari3 sites
- Orbiculoidea missouriensis3 sites
- Rhipidomella3 sites
- Schizophoria3 sites
- Amphiscapha catilloides2 sites
- Anthracospirifer birdspringensis2 sites
- Buxtonia2 sites
- Cleiothyridina2 sites
- Cleiothyridina orbicularis2 sites
- Derbyia2 sites
- Derbyia crassa2 sites
- Desmoinesia nana2 sites
- Eolissochonetes2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Orbiculoidea capuliformis, 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
6 references- Preliminary report of the brachiopod fauna, Arrow Canyon section, southern Nevada, U.S.A.2
- Geology of the Northern Needle Range Millard County, Utah2
- Pottsville fauna of Ohio2
- Pennsylvanian stratigraphy and paleontology of the Taos area, north-central New Mexico1
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri1
- Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas1
Each of the 9 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 Orbiculoidea capuliformis
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Orbiculoidea capuliformis 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 itOrbiculoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McChesney 1859)