Girvanolithes subexcavatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GirvanolithesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At most 1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 457.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Girvanolithes subexcavatus 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
1 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
1 formation
- Balclatchie Formation · Ardwell Group1
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The named rock units Girvanolithes subexcavatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Girvanolithes subexcavatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Girvanolithes subexcavatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Boucotspira ordovicus1 site
- Carinaropsis gracilis1 site
- Clathrospira trochiformis1 site
- Hyolithes immemor1 site
- Hyolithes multipunctatus1 site
- Leolites ardmillanensis1 site
- Lophospira ferruginea1 site
- Pterotheca girvanensis1 site
- Sinuites discoides1 site
- Strangulites maccallumi1 site
- Tetranota carrickensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Girvanolithes subexcavatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Girvanolithes subexcavatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Girvanolithes subexcavatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Girvanolithes subexcavatus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itGirvanolithes through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reed 1909)