Orthambonites inaequalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthambonitesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthambonites
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthambonites
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthambonites
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 472.1 Mya and 458 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician473–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472.6 Mya457.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Orthambonites inaequalis 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

5 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.

Orthambonites inaequalis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Orthambonites inaequalis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Orthambonites inaequalis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 5 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

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No picture of Orthambonites inaequalis 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 Orthambonites inaequalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Orthambonites inaequalis 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 itOrthambonites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rubel 1961