Orbiculoidea shallochensis
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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 most 400 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.2 Mya and 448.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Orbiculoidea shallochensis 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Portrane Limestone Formation · Duncannon Group1
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The named rock units Orbiculoidea shallochensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orbiculoidea shallochensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Orbiculoidea shallochensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Acanthambonia portranensis1 site
- Acanthocrania1 site
- Allumettoceras1 site
- Amorphognathus1 site
- Amorphognathus duftonus1 site
- Amorphognathus ordovicicus1 site
- Amorphognathus superbus1 site
- Amorphognathus ventilatus1 site
- Aphelognathus1 site
- Bancroftina1 site
- Belodina confluens1 site
- Birksfeldia circumplicata1 site
- Cornuodus1 site
- Dalmanella portranensis1 site
- Dapsilodus mutatus1 site
- Decoriconus1 site
- Dicoelosia lata1 site
- Dolerorthis inaequicostata1 site
- Drepanoistodus suberectus1 site
- Eocarniodus gracilis1 site
- Eoconulus transversus1 site
- Ephippelasma1 site
- Glyptorthis maritima1 site
- Hamarodus brevirameus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Orbiculoidea shallochensis, 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
1 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Orbiculoidea shallochensis 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 Orbiculoidea shallochensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orbiculoidea shallochensis 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 itOrbiculoidea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reed 1917