Orthotoma
No picture of Orthotoma 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 Orthotoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthotomidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 170.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 168.2 Mya.
8 occurrences of Orthotoma on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Orthotoma 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.
Orthotoma and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Orthotoma and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Linguithyris aspasia6 sites
- Cisnerospira darwini4 sites
- Liospiriferina sicula4 sites
- Zeilleria mutabilis4 sites
- Apringia paolii3 sites
- Bakonyithyris pedemontana3 sites
- Cirpa subcostellata3 sites
- Liospiriferina gryphoidea3 sites
- Viallithyris gozzanensis3 sites
- Antiptychina rothpletzi2 sites
- Apringia diptycha2 sites
- Bakonyithyris apenninica2 sites
- Calcirhynchia plicatissima2 sites
- Discohelix orbis2 sites
- Liospiriferina2 sites
- Liospiriferina alpina2 sites
- Liospiriferina brevirostris2 sites
- Liospiriferina obtusa2 sites
- Lokutella liasina2 sites
- Megapringia altesinuata2 sites
- Megapringia stoppanii2 sites
- Nannirhynchia gemmellaroi2 sites
- Piarorhynchia caroli2 sites
- Pisirhynchia pisoides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Orthotoma, 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
3 references- The Pliensbachian brachiopods of the Bakony Mountains (Hungary)5
- Early Jurassic fauna and facies of the Schafberg area (Salzkammergut, Austria)2
- Jurassic brachiopods of Saudi Arabia1
Each of the 8 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 Orthotoma 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 Orthotoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orthotoma 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 itOrthotomidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quenstedt 1869