Clathrospira

Clathrospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EotomariinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 445.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.4 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 139 of 139 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 139 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 2 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 3 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 14 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 17 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 16 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 15 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 15 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 15 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 5 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 5 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471.3 Mya445.5 Mya484.2 Mya442.3 Mya

139 occurrences of Clathrospira 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

139 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

52 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSmithville — 33.25°N, 92.57°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.89°WSmithville — 37.41°N, 89.87°WSmithville — 37.29°N, 89.83°WSmithville — 37.21°N, 89.85°WSmithville — 36.11°N, 91.30°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 43.30°N, 91.78°WPlatteville — 42.51°N, 89.03°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 37.84°N, 84.46°WLexington Limestone — 37.85°N, 84.51°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 41.85°N, 89.48°WQuimbys Mill — 44.98°N, 93.27°WLower Ktaoua — 30.98°N, 5.43°WLower Ktaoua — 31.08°N, 5.27°WLower Ktaoua — 30.64°N, 5.11°WLower Ktaoua — 31.15°N, 5.10°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WChaumont — 45.41°N, 75.73°WChaumont — 45.43°N, 75.53°WVauréal — 49.92°N, 64.33°WVauréal — 49.93°N, 64.13°WMcGregor — 42.51°N, 89.03°WMcGregor — 42.00°N, 89.39°WMcGregor — 40.78°N, 87.39°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGeorgian Bay — 45.74°N, 81.61°WGeorgian Bay — 44.71°N, 80.64°WGlenwood — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGlenwood — 42.00°N, 90.50°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WCrown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WVaureal — 49.92°N, 64.33°WVaureal — 49.91°N, 64.21°WEllis Bay — 49.80°N, 64.30°WTate — 37.58°N, 84.61°WLexington — 37.79°N, 84.50°W

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The named rock units Clathrospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clathrospira and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Clathrospira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,024 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Clathrospira, 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

39 references

Each of the 139 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. 27 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 Clathrospira

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Clathrospira 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897