Shoshonorthis perplexus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ShoshonorthisPBDB
- 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 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 488.9 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Shoshonorthis perplexus 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- Cambrian2%
- Ordovician98%
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
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group7
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The named rock units Shoshonorthis perplexus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Shoshonorthis perplexus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Shoshonorthis perplexus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Anomalorthis oklahomensis2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Eofletcheria2 sites
- Orthambonites dinorthoides2 sites
- Archaeogastropoda1 site
- Atelelasma1 site
- Cystoidea1 site
- Favositida1 site
- Isotelus1 site
- Lichenaria1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Remopleurides1 site
- Sphenotreta sulcata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Shoshonorthis perplexus, 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- Some Middle Ordovician Brachiopods and Trilobites from the Basin Ranges, Western United States4
- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada2
- Species diversity patterns in some middle Ordovician communities from California-Nevada1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Shoshonorthis perplexus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Shoshonorthis perplexus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Shoshonorthis perplexus 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 itShoshonorthis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ross and Barnes 1967)