Septorthis

Septorthis

Hints, Linda · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
CremnorthidaePBDB
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 most 2.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 456.8 Mya and 453.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician457–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457.3 Mya453.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Septorthis 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

2 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

1 formation

Arnestad — 59.92°N, 10.78°E

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

Septorthis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Septorthis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Septorthis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Septorthis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Hints, Linda
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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.