Ortonella furcata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrtonellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cyrtodontidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 122 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 7 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 2 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous461–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–442 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences344–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452.8 Mya330.3 Mya461 Mya321 Mya

7 occurrences of Ortonella furcata 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

7 occurrences

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

3 formations

Beiguoshan — 35.02°N, 106.66°EBeiguoshan — 34.69°N, 108.63°EPingliang — 34.98°N, 108.90°EPingliang — 38.82°N, 107.75°EArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°E

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The named rock units Ortonella furcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ortonella furcata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ortonella furcata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ortonella furcata, 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

3 references

Each of the 7 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

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No picture of Ortonella furcata 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 Ortonella furcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ortonella furcata 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 itOrtonella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Garwood 1914