Ranorthis

Ranorthis

Dr L. Robin M. Cocks · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RanorthidaePBDB
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 9.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 491.5 Mya to 461 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 121 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 121 of 121 occurrencesOrdovician492–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 1 occurrence482–480 Mya — about 1 occurrence480–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–476 Mya — about 3 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 5 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 8 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 8 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 8 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 17 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 32 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 25 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–465 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya468 Mya492.1 Mya460.4 Mya

121 occurrences of Ranorthis 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

121 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

22 formations

Volkhov — 59.87°N, 31.43°EVolkhov — 59.90°N, 31.58°EVolkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EVolkhov — 59.82°N, 32.20°ELeetse — 59.75°N, 30.43°ELeetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°ELeetse — 59.87°N, 31.43°ELeetse — 60.03°N, 32.63°ELeetse — 59.98°N, 32.34°EVolkhov Stage — 59.87°N, 31.43°EToila — 59.43°N, 24.73°EToila — 59.46°N, 24.91°EToila — 59.51°N, 25.79°EUpper Fezouata — 30.42°N, 5.85°WUpper Fezouata — 27.88°N, 11.42°WUpper Fezouata — 27.82°N, 11.40°WKriukai — 56.30°N, 23.80°EKriukai — 56.18°N, 23.13°EKriukai — 56.05°N, 23.26°EKlabava — 50.00°N, 14.00°ESimeh-Kuh — 36.21°N, 54.22°EHuk — 64.93°N, 11.90°EHuk — 59.59°N, 9.69°ELeetse — 59.45°N, 25.18°ELeetse — 59.44°N, 27.31°EPakri Sandstone — 59.41°N, 24.31°EPakri Sandstone — 59.34°N, 23.98°ELandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°ELower Fezouata — 30.68°N, 6.18°WMäeküla — 59.40°N, 24.61°ELynna — 59.97°N, 32.57°EVillar del Salz — 40.93°N, 2.05°WGaide — 55.57°N, 26.65°EArmana — 55.60°N, 26.47°ETosnensky — 59.66°N, 30.68°EBabushkinskaya — 54.68°N, 22.63°ENefedovskaya — 58.61°N, 39.51°ESementsovskaya — 58.41°N, 37.53°E

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The named rock units Ranorthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ranorthis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ranorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Ranorthis, 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

22 references

Each of the 121 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Ranorthis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr L. Robin M. Cocks
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Öpik 1939