Homoeospira evax

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HomoeospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Retziidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Retziidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Retziidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Homoeospira evax 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
7 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Homoeospira evax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Homoeospira evax and its relatives
SilurianWhere Homoeospira evax and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Anastrophia7 sites
- Atrypa reticularis7 sites
- Bryozoa7 sites
- Dictyonella reticulata7 sites
- Eucalyptocrinites7 sites
- Howellella (Howellella) crispa7 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis7 sites
- Stegerhynchus7 sites
- Dicoelosia6 sites
- Favosites forbesi6 sites
- Lecanocrinus6 sites
- Lyriocrinus6 sites
- Rhynchotreta americana6 sites
- Atrypina disparilis5 sites
- Botryocrinus5 sites
- Calymene niagarensis5 sites
- Dalmanites5 sites
- Decaschisma pulchellus5 sites
- Diabolirhynchia5 sites
- Dimerocrinites5 sites
- Eohalysiocrinus5 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus5 sites
- Fardenia (Coolinia)5 sites
- Lobomelocrinus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Homoeospira evax, 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
2 references- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America5
- Species-abundance models: an ecological approach to inferring paleoenvironment and resolving paleoecological change in the Waldron Shale (Silurian)2
Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Homoeospira evax
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itHomoeospira through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1863)