Ornithella pentagonalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrnithellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 3.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 152.21 Mya and 149.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 15 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic152–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152.71 Mya148.7 Mya

15 occurrences of Ornithella pentagonalis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

15 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

5 formations

Nusplinger Plattenkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°ENusplingen Limestone — 48.13°N, 8.88°EPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°E

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The named rock units Ornithella pentagonalis 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.

Ornithella pentagonalis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ornithella pentagonalis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

220 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ornithella pentagonalis, 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

Each of the 15 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

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No picture of Ornithella pentagonalis 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 Ornithella pentagonalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ornithella pentagonalis 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 itOrnithella through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bronn 1841)