Orthonychia ungula
No picture of Orthonychia ungula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Orthonychia ungula, 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 least 9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 342.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 335.4 Mya.
3 occurrences of Orthonychia ungula on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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 ungula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orthonychia ungula and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Orthonychia ungula and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Palaeocapulus undata2 sites
- Platyceras latum2 sites
- Platyceras oxynotum2 sites
- Bellerophon jeffersonensis1 site
- Bellerophon ulrichi1 site
- Mourlonia missouriensis1 site
- Naticopsis paucivolutus1 site
- Orthonychia jeffersonensis1 site
- Platyceras encloides1 site
- Platyceras evolutus1 site
- Platyceras glenparkensis1 site
- Ptychomphalina magna1 site
- Vorticina cyrtolites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Orthonychia ungula, 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- The fauna of the middle Boone near Batesville, Arkansas2
- Kinderhook faunal studies, IV. The fauna of the Glen Park limestone1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Orthonychia ungula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Orthonychia ungula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itOrthonychia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller 1906