Phragmorthis buttsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhragmorthisPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
16 occurrences of Phragmorthis buttsi 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
16 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
8 formations
- Kangaroo Creek Formation3
- Telsitna Formation3
- Stinchar Formation2
- Superstes Mudstone Formation1
- Horseshoe Gulch Formation1
- Pratt Ferry Formation1
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The named rock units Phragmorthis buttsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phragmorthis buttsi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Phragmorthis buttsi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
225 taxa- Ptychopleurella uniplicata9 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus9 sites
- Skenidioides multifarius8 sites
- Ptychoglyptus virginiensis5 sites
- Ptychopleurella mediocostata5 sites
- Skenidioides5 sites
- Taphrorthis peculiaris5 sites
- Amblysiphonella grossa4 sites
- Bimuria buttsi4 sites
- Dicoelosia jonesridgensis4 sites
- Diochthofera conspicua4 sites
- Epitomyonia relicina4 sites
- Eripnifera praecipitis4 sites
- Hesperorthis4 sites
- Laticrura pionodema4 sites
- Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata4 sites
- Nothorthis tarda4 sites
- Paurorthis fasciculata4 sites
- Ptychopleurella rectangulata4 sites
- Salopina horseshoensis4 sites
- Scaphorthis4 sites
- Skenidioides costatus4 sites
- Taphrorthis4 sites
- Anoptambonites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Phragmorthis buttsi, 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
5 references- Middle and Late Ordovician brachiopods from the eastern Klamath Mountains, northern California7
- Late Ordovician brachiopods from west-central Alaska: systematics, ecology and palaeobiogeography3
- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda3
- Chazyan and related brachiopods2
- On an exposure of the Ordovician superstes Mudstones at Colmonell, Girvan District, Strathclyde1
Each of the 16 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 Phragmorthis buttsi 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 Phragmorthis buttsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phragmorthis buttsi 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 itPhragmorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956