Pseudorthotheca

No picture of Pseudorthotheca was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pseudorthotheca firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyolithellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida

Time the record covers

At least 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 521 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 516 Mya.

Cambrian — about 31 of 31 occurrencesCambrian539–539 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences539–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–531 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 1 occurrence530–529 Mya — about 1 occurrence529–528 Mya — about 1 occurrence528–527 Mya — about 1 occurrence527–527 Mya — about 1 occurrence527–526 Mya — about 1 occurrence526–525 Mya — about 3 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 3 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 3 occurrences523–523 Mya — about 3 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 3 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 3 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525.5 Mya521 Mya539.3 Mya515.5 Mya

31 occurrences of Pseudorthotheca on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

31 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

9 formations

Chulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.87°EChulaktau — 43.62°N, 69.73°EChulaktau — 43.37°N, 70.22°EChulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.97°EChulaktau — 43.68°N, 69.68°EChulaktau — 43.60°N, 69.45°EHuangshandong — 30.83°N, 111.17°EHuangshandong — 30.77°N, 111.13°EZhujiaqing — 27.93°N, 103.56°EMarcou — 43.70°N, 3.01°EBilir — 60.25°N, 109.33°EShabakty — 43.47°N, 69.87°ETsagaan Oloom — 46.70°N, 96.30°EBayan Gol — 46.70°N, 96.30°EDengying — 26.63°N, 105.85°E

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The named rock units Pseudorthotheca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pseudorthotheca and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Pseudorthotheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Pseudorthotheca, 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

7 references

Each of the 31 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 Pseudorthotheca was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pseudorthotheca firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Pseudorthotheca was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHyolithellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cobbold 1935