Ornothyrella
No picture of Ornothyrella 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 Ornothyrella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiriferidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.1 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ornothyrella 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
2 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
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The named rock units Ornothyrella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ornothyrella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ornothyrella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Actinopeltis2 sites
- Aegiria2 sites
- Anoptambonites monetus2 sites
- Boticium2 sites
- Cliftonia2 sites
- Decoroproetus2 sites
- Epitomyonia2 sites
- Hindella2 sites
- Jezercia2 sites
- Kozlowskites nuntius2 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
- Marekolithus kosoviensis2 sites
- Mespilocystites2 sites
- Mucronaspis2 sites
- Ravozetina2 sites
- Salopina2 sites
- Trochurus2 sites
- Acanthambonia1 site
- Alceste1 site
- Anoptambonites quaesita1 site
- Anticostia teres1 site
- Bojokoralaspis peregrina1 site
- Bronteopsis sola1 site
- Bumastus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ornothyrella, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ornothyrella 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 Ornothyrella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ornothyrella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpiriferida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Havlicek 1971