Helicotoma griffinorum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelicotomaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Helicotoma
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Helicotoma
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Helicotoma
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Helicotoma griffinorum 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
4 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
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The named rock units Helicotoma griffinorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Helicotoma griffinorum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Helicotoma griffinorum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Ectomaria callahanensis3 sites
- Liospira modesta3 sites
- Lophospira perangulata3 sites
- Pachystrophia devexa3 sites
- Paraliospira mundula3 sites
- Boucotspira fimbriata2 sites
- Donaldiella derwiduii2 sites
- Lophospira milleri2 sites
- Maclurites2 sites
- Megalomphala contorta2 sites
- Paraliospira gradata2 sites
- Paraliospira helena2 sites
- Bimuria1 site
- Cyclonema1 site
- Ectomaria prisca1 site
- Holopea elizabethi1 site
- Linsleyella greggi1 site
- Linsleyella johnsoni1 site
- Megalomphala1 site
- Ophiletina sublaxa1 site
- Palaeomphalus olsoni1 site
- Paraliospira angulata1 site
- Paraliospira planata1 site
- Sigmelasma pantherae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Helicotoma griffinorum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 Helicotoma griffinorum 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 Helicotoma griffinorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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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What may have been alongside itHelicotoma through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rohr 1980