Hormotoma minnesotensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HormotomaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Hormotoma
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hormotoma
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Hormotoma
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 451 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
14 occurrences of Hormotoma minnesotensis 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
14 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
8 formations
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group5
- Dubuque Formation · Galena Group2
- Wise Lake Formation · Galena Group2
- Prosser Limestone Formation1
- Stewartville Formation1
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group1
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The named rock units Hormotoma minnesotensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hormotoma minnesotensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hormotoma minnesotensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Maclurites crassa13 sites
- Fusispira inflata12 sites
- Fusispira subbrevis12 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis12 sites
- Lophospira major12 sites
- Fusispira angusta11 sites
- Fusispira intermedia11 sites
- Fusispira subfusiformis11 sites
- Fusispira ventricosa11 sites
- Lophospira perangulata11 sites
- Omospira trentonensis11 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus11 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata11 sites
- Cyrtostropha salteri9 sites
- Eroicaspira bellicincta9 sites
- Hormotoma neglecta9 sites
- Liospira americana9 sites
- Liospira progne9 sites
- Trochonema fragile9 sites
- Alaskadiscus subacutus8 sites
- Ambonychiopsis8 sites
- Bucania elliptica8 sites
- Bucania sublata8 sites
- Cleionychia8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Hormotoma minnesotensis, 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- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota11
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)3
Each of the 14 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
Media content0
No picture of Hormotoma minnesotensis 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 Hormotoma minnesotensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hormotoma minnesotensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itHormotoma through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)