Orthothetina convergens
No picture of Orthothetina convergens 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 Orthothetina convergens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthothetinaPBDB
- 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 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Orthothetina convergens 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
5 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
2 formations
- Lashkargaz Formation · Chapursan Group4
- Panjshah Formation · Chapursan Group1
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The named rock units Orthothetina convergens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orthothetina convergens and its relatives
PermianWhere Orthothetina convergens and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Callytharrella sinensis4 sites
- Neochonetes (Neochonetes) costellata4 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) baroghilensis3 sites
- Paramesolobus sinuosus3 sites
- Retimarginifera praelecta3 sites
- Costiferina2 sites
- Magniplicatina johannis2 sites
- Waagenoconcha (Gruntoconcha) macrotuberculata2 sites
- Aldina exilis1 site
- Derbyia grandis1 site
- Enteletes1 site
- Magniplicatina inassueta1 site
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) vialis1 site
- Reticulatia chitralis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Orthothetina convergens, 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 5 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
Media content0
No picture of Orthothetina convergens 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 Orthothetina convergens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orthothetina convergens 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 itOrthothetina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Merla 1934