Orthotetes sulcus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthotetesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Orthotetes sulcus 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Orthotetes sulcus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orthotetes sulcus and its relatives
PermianWhere Orthotetes sulcus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Bathymyonia nevadensis1 site
- Bellerophon depauperatus1 site
- Cancrinella phosphatica1 site
- Composita gigantea1 site
- Composita mexicana1 site
- Composita plana1 site
- Composita subtilita1 site
- Condrathyris perplexa1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Crurithyris arcuata1 site
- Echinauris magna1 site
- Helodus subpolitus1 site
- Hustedia phosphoriensis1 site
- Janassa unguicula1 site
- Nuculopsis montpelierensis1 site
- Polidevcia bellistriata1 site
- Prodentalium canna1 site
- Punctospirifer kentuckensis1 site
- Rhynchopora taylori1 site
- Strophostylus1 site
- Timaniella pseudocamerata1 site
- Xestotrema pulchrum1 site
- Yakovlevia multistriata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Orthotetes sulcus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Orthotetes sulcus 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 Orthotetes sulcus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orthotetes sulcus 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.
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What may have been alongside itOrthotetes through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson 1930