Orthophyllum

No picture of Orthophyllum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Orthophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RugosaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 4 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 4 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesDevonian451–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443.1 Mya393.47 Mya451 Mya381 Mya

4 occurrences of Orthophyllum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

4 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

4 formations

BaiYunShan — 42.00°N, 101.00°ETakuan — 27.73°N, 103.88°EWadleigh Limestone — 55.49°N, 132.36°WGazelle — 41.51°N, 122.59°W

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

Orthophyllum and its relatives

Silurian

Where Orthophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

78 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Orthophyllum, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 Orthophyllum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Orthophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Orthophyllum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itRugosa through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pocta 1902