Fusispira inflata
No picture of Fusispira inflata 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 Fusispira inflata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FusispiraPBDB
- 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 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 448.8 Mya.
15 occurrences of Fusispira inflata 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
15 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
8 formations
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group5
- Cummingsville Formation2
- Dubuque Formation · Galena Group2
- Wise Lake Formation · Galena Group2
- Prosser Limestone Formation1
- Stewartville Formation1
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The named rock units Fusispira inflata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fusispira inflata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Fusispira inflata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
256 taxa- Maclurites crassa14 sites
- Fusispira subbrevis13 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis13 sites
- Fusispira angusta12 sites
- Fusispira intermedia12 sites
- Fusispira subfusiformis12 sites
- Fusispira ventricosa12 sites
- Hormotoma minnesotensis12 sites
- Lophospira major12 sites
- Omospira trentonensis12 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata12 sites
- Liospira americana11 sites
- Lophospira perangulata11 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus11 sites
- Cyrtodonta10 sites
- Cyrtodontula10 sites
- Globonema niota10 sites
- Hormotoma neglecta10 sites
- Liospira progne10 sites
- Modiolodon10 sites
- Saffordia10 sites
- Sinuites pervoluta10 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta10 sites
- Vanuxemia10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Fusispira inflata, 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
4 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota12
- The Wagner Quarry cystoid bed: a study in Prosser (Sherwood) paleoecology1
- On the Middle and Upper Ordovician faunas of northern Greenland1
- On the Lower Silurian (Trenton) fauna of Baffin Land. Proceedings of the United States National Museum1
Each of the 15 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. 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 content0
No picture of Fusispira inflata 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 Fusispira inflata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fusispira inflata 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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What may have been alongside itFusispira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1870)