Grandostoma caudatum
No picture of Grandostoma caudatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Grandostoma caudatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrandostomaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 1.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 425 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Grandostoma caudatum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Grandostoma caudatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Grandostoma caudatum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Grandostoma caudatum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Catazone cuneus1 site
- Catazone latona1 site
- Coelocaulus fugitiva1 site
- Cyclonema cancellatum1 site
- Cyclonema karlsteinensis1 site
- Discordichilus normalis1 site
- Drahomira rugata1 site
- Globonema lyelli1 site
- Loxonema torquatum1 site
- Michelia tenera1 site
- Naticopsis errans1 site
- Naticopsis plena1 site
- Oriostoma dives1 site
- Pleurorima migrans1 site
- Prosoptychus rotunda1 site
- Ptychosphaera constricta1 site
- Retipilina knighti1 site
- Ruedemannia subrobusta1 site
- Strophostylus cancellata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Grandostoma caudatum, 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 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Grandostoma caudatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Grandostoma caudatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Grandostoma caudatum 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 itGrandostoma through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perner 1903)