Orobias

Orobias

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EndothyridaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 28 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 28 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 4 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 4 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 4 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 4 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 1 occurrence321–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–319 Mya — about 1 occurrence319–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–316 Mya — about 1 occurrence316–315 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330.3 Mya323.4 Mya336.6 Mya298.2 Mya

28 occurrences of Orobias 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

28 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

16 formations

Johns Valley — 34.50°N, 95.63°WJohns Valley — 34.42°N, 96.00°WJohns Valley — 34.41°N, 95.91°WJohns Valley — 34.60°N, 95.98°WJohns Valley — 34.60°N, 95.89°WJohns Valley — 34.75°N, 95.75°WJohns Valley — 34.45°N, 95.88°WHawes Limestone I — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone III — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone IIIa — 54.30°N, 2.15°WFive Yard Limestone VI — 54.30°N, 2.15°WFive Yard Limestone VIa — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Limestone II — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Limestone Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone III Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IV — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IVa — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IVc — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMiddle Limestone V — 54.30°N, 2.15°WThree Yard Limestone VII — 54.30°N, 2.15°WCisco — 32.38°N, 99.09°W

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The named rock units Orobias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Orobias and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Orobias and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Orobias, 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

3 references

Each of the 28 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 content2

Picture of Orobias

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Orobias biumbonata · AMNH:FI:19941

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.