Orthidiella longwelli

Orthidiella longwelli

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 900 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 470.3 Mya to 469.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician471–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–469 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470.3 Mya – 469.4 Mya471.8 Mya456.8 Mya

17 occurrences of Orthidiella longwelli 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

17 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

2 formations

Antelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.67°WAntelope Valley — 37.30°N, 115.80°WAntelope Valley — 37.12°N, 116.50°WAntelope Valley — 36.78°N, 115.89°WValhallfonna — 79.85°N, 17.67°E

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

Orthidiella longwelli and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Orthidiella longwelli and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Orthidiella longwelli, 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

5 references

Each of the 17 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 content1

Picture of Orthidiella longwelli

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Orthidiella longwelli 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 itOrthidiella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Cooper 1938