Orthonema

Orthonema

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthonematidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 58 of 143 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 85 of 143 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 143 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 2 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–314 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 5 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 10 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 13 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 11 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 11 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 7 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 5 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 5 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 4 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 3 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 6 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 11 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 11 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 8 occurrences274–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 3 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 4 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 7 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 5 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences330.3 Mya254.14 Mya338 Mya250 Mya

143 occurrences of Orthonema on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

143 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

50 formations

Flechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.31°WLoray — 39.48°N, 115.13°WPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°WPalmarito — 8.02°N, 71.38°WShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.07°EPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPark City — 43.17°N, 109.17°WPark City — 43.13°N, 110.58°WPark City — 42.80°N, 108.86°WPark City — 43.53°N, 110.95°WPark City — 43.54°N, 108.70°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.47°WKaibab — 34.43°N, 109.35°WKaibab — 34.06°N, 110.11°WEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°EHueco — 32.36°N, 106.08°WHueco — 31.85°N, 105.97°WHueco — 32.29°N, 106.07°WHueco — 32.40°N, 105.95°WHeshan — 23.82°N, 108.87°EH. S. Lee — 4.30°N, 101.15°ERed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°WBrad — 33.24°N, 98.08°WPawnee — 38.64°N, 90.32°WTurabievo — 55.92°N, 38.05°ETurabievo — 55.62°N, 38.44°ENovlenskoe — 55.19°N, 38.80°ENovlenskoe — 55.46°N, 37.81°EMadera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.12°WGraham — 33.25°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.51°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.16°WAmsden — 43.18°N, 109.20°WAmsden — 43.51°N, 107.46°WBird Spring — 36.60°N, 114.79°WBird Spring — 36.50°N, 115.58°WAkasaka — 35.39°N, 136.58°EHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WLazarevsky — 56.05°N, 61.68°EPillsbury Shale — 40.67°N, 95.85°WCaddo Creek — 33.24°N, 98.08°W

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The named rock units Orthonema has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthonema and its relatives

Permian

Where Orthonema and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,430 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Orthonema, 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

42 references

Each of the 143 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. 30 further references are not listed. 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 Orthonema

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek and Worthen 1862