Iru concava

Orviku, Karl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IruPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Billingsellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 472.1 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Iru concava 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Iru concava has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Iru concava and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Iru concava and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Ahtiella arenaria1 site
- Ahtiella baltica1 site
- Asaphus1 site
- Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps1 site
- Asaphus expansus1 site
- Asaphus striatus1 site
- Asteusloffia1 site
- Clitambonites (Hemipronites) famulus1 site
- Collibolbina1 site
- Conchoprimitia gammae1 site
- Didymograptellus bifidus1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Easchmidtella1 site
- Eobromidella1 site
- Euprimites1 site
- Ingria pakriana1 site
- Lenodus variabilis1 site
- Longiscula1 site
- Lycophoria nucella1 site
- Microzarkodina1 site
- Neoasaphus1 site
- Orthambonites calligramme1 site
- Orthambonites fundata1 site
- Oslogonites septatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Iru concava, 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- Über Klitamboniten2
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)1
Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Iru concava
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Orviku, Karl
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No repository was searched for a 3D scan: the genus name is too short to search on without matching most of the record.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIru through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pahlen 1877)