Orthorhynchula linneyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthorhynchulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 800 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 451 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
24 occurrences of Orthorhynchula linneyi 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
24 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
8 formations
- Catheys Formation3
- Leipers Formation2
- Martinsburg Formation2
- Lexington Limestone Formation2
- Bigby-Cannon Limestone Formation1
- Inman Formation1
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The named rock units Orthorhynchula linneyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Orthorhynchula linneyi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Orthorhynchula linneyi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
184 taxa- Hallopora14 sites
- Hebertella sinuata12 sites
- Platystrophia12 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra11 sites
- Escharopora11 sites
- Heterotrypa11 sites
- Homotrypa11 sites
- Prismostylus fibratum11 sites
- Ambonychia10 sites
- Constellaria10 sites
- Eridotrypa10 sites
- Heterotrypa frondosa10 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata10 sites
- Augustoceras vallandighami9 sites
- Hebertella frankfortensis9 sites
- Paupospira bowdeni9 sites
- Platystrophia colbiensis9 sites
- Platystrophia ponderosa9 sites
- Zygospira modesta9 sites
- Atactoporella8 sites
- Dekayella8 sites
- Hebertella occidentalis8 sites
- Platystrophia laticosta8 sites
- Zygospira8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Orthorhynchula linneyi, 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
8 references- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia9
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee7
- Middle and Late Ordovician plectambonitacean, rhynchonellacean, syntrophiacean, trimerellacean, and atrypacean brachiopods: descriptions and illustrations of 14 species of Ordovician brachiopods2
- Upper Ordovician Ecology of the Central Appalachians2
- Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky1
- Quantitative paleoecologic analysis of fossil communities in the Richmond Group1
- The paleontology and stratigraphy of the upper Martinsburg formation of Massanutten Mountain, Virginia1
- A new Ordovician eurypterid1
Each of the 24 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 Orthorhynchula linneyi
- 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 of Orthorhynchula linneyi 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.
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What may have been alongside itOrthorhynchula through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (James 1881)