Fusispira ventricosa

No picture of Fusispira ventricosa 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 ventricosa, 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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 13 of 17 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 17 occurrencesSilurian458–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–430 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450.2 Mya432.9 Mya457.9 Mya426.1 Mya

17 occurrences of Fusispira ventricosa 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

17 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

8 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WDubuque — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°W

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

Fusispira ventricosa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Fusispira ventricosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

363 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Fusispira ventricosa, 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

3 references

Each of the 17 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 ventricosa 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 ventricosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Fusispira ventricosa 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 itFusispira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1872