Fusispira

Fusispira

Paalits, I. · 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
SubulitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Subulitidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Subulitidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Subulitidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 385.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.4 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 202 of 215 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 215 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 9 of 215 occurrencesDevonian485–482 Mya — about 1 occurrence482–478 Mya — about 3 occurrences478–475 Mya — about 3 occurrences475–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 51 occurrences454–450 Mya — about 94 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 35 occurrences447–443 Mya — about 4 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences419–415 Mya — about 3 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 2 occurrences394–391 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences391–387 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 2 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences471.3 Mya385.9 Mya485 Mya380 Mya

215 occurrences of Fusispira 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

215 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

51 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WCummingsville — 44.50°N, 92.90°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.31°N, 89.88°WSmithville — 37.41°N, 89.87°WSmithville — 37.21°N, 89.85°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 45.42°N, 75.72°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WLindsay — 44.58°N, 78.98°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WPortage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.00°WPortage Chute — 56.50°N, 94.25°WPortage Chute — 58.50°N, 95.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.90°N, 82.03°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.00°N, 81.67°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.67°N, 81.90°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.25°WKope — 38.87°N, 84.46°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 43.88°N, 75.49°WAmadjuak — 65.25°N, 73.17°WAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WAmadjuak — 63.75°N, 68.95°WGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EPort Clarence Limestone — 65.50°N, 165.92°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.67°WFarr — 47.42°N, 79.60°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WGlenwood — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGlenwood — 42.00°N, 90.50°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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The named rock units Fusispira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fusispira and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Fusispira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,038 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Fusispira, 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

35 references

Each of the 215 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. 23 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 Fusispira

Source
GBIF
Credit
Paalits, I.
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. (Hall 1872)