Orthotichia kozlowskii

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthotichiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya.
27 occurrences of Orthotichia kozlowskii 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
27 occurrences- Carboniferous15%
- Permian85%
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
5 formations
- Neal Ranch Formation11
- Lenox Hills Formation6
- Gaptank Formation4
- Hueco Formation3
- Hueco Canyon Formation1
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The named rock units Orthotichia kozlowskii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Orthotichia kozlowskii and its relatives
PermianWhere Orthotichia kozlowskii and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
263 taxa- Limbella wolfcampensis14 sites
- Teguliferina boesei14 sites
- Composita strongyle12 sites
- Enteletes wolfcampensis12 sites
- Pontisia kingi10 sites
- Neophricadothyris transversa9 sites
- Orbicoelia tumibilis9 sites
- Eolyttonia fredericksi8 sites
- Derbyia7 sites
- Meekella prionota7 sites
- Meekella texana7 sites
- Orthotetella wolfcampensis7 sites
- Reticulatia7 sites
- Derbyia profunda6 sites
- Diplanus catatonus6 sites
- Hustedia trita leptyca6 sites
- Lophophyllidium (Lophophyllidium) dunbari6 sites
- Rhynchopora molina6 sites
- Cleiothyridina rectimarginata5 sites
- Composita subtilita5 sites
- Derbyia carteri5 sites
- Hystriculina minima5 sites
- Hystriculina sulcata5 sites
- Hystriculina ventroplana5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Orthotichia kozlowskii, 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
2 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI17
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda10
Each of the 27 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 Orthotichia kozlowskii
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No 3D scan of Orthotichia kozlowskii 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 itOrthotichia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1931