Orthonychia tortuosa
No picture of Orthonychia tortuosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Orthonychia tortuosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthonychiaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Orthonychia tortuosa on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Orthonychia tortuosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orthonychia tortuosa and its relatives
DevonianWhere Orthonychia tortuosa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Platyceras leboutillieri2 sites
- Acrospirifer1 site
- Crossoceras belandi1 site
- Joleaudella rotula1 site
- Orthonychia belli1 site
- Pachystrophia lescarboti1 site
- Platyceras guesnini1 site
- Platyceras lejeunii1 site
- Platyceras magnificum1 site
- Platyceras nodosum1 site
- Platyostoma gebhardi1 site
- Plectonotoides gaspensis1 site
- Prosoptychus plenus1 site
- Quadricarina voltumna1 site
- Spinyplatyceras fornicatum1 site
- Spinyplatyceras paxiller1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Orthonychia tortuosa, 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
2 references- Early Devonic history of New York and eastern North America. Part 12
- Platyceratid Gastropods from the Oriskany Sandstone (Lower Devonian) near Cumberland, Maryland: Synonymies, Preservation and Color Markings1
Each of the 3 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 Orthonychia tortuosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Orthonychia tortuosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orthonychia tortuosa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOrthonychia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1859)