Orthis callactis

Orthis callactis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthisPBDB
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 most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 45 of 45 occurrencesOrdovician477–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences477.6 Mya463.8 Mya

45 occurrences of Orthis callactis 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

45 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

7 formations

Lynna — 60.00°N, 32.56°ESillaoru — 59.87°N, 31.43°ESillaoru — 60.05°N, 32.59°ESillaoru — 59.44°N, 27.22°ESillaoru — 59.44°N, 27.31°EMytton Flags — 52.67°N, 2.00°WHolen — 58.56°N, 15.28°EHolen — 57.15°N, 16.92°EVolkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EAsaphus Limestone — 58.38°N, 14.70°E

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The named rock units Orthis callactis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthis callactis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Orthis callactis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Orthis callactis, 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

9 references

Each of the 45 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 Orthis callactis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOrthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dalman 1827