Liospira vitruvia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiospiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
41 occurrences of Liospira vitruvia 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
41 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
20 formations
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group8
- Chaumont Formation6
- Hull Formation3
- Ion Formation · Galena Group2
- McGregor Formation · Platteville Group2
- Carters Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Liospira vitruvia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Liospira vitruvia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Liospira vitruvia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
408 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis29 sites
- Clathrospira subconica22 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata22 sites
- Lophospira perangulata21 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata21 sites
- Eunema centralis20 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus20 sites
- Cyclonema textilis18 sites
- Cyrtodonta18 sites
- Cyrtodontula18 sites
- Liospira americana18 sites
- Lyrodesma18 sites
- Paupospira burginensis18 sites
- Scalites peracutum18 sites
- Tetranota bidorsata18 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta18 sites
- Eunema concinnula17 sites
- Liospira angustata17 sites
- Orthodesma17 sites
- Sinuites pervoluta17 sites
- Subulites17 sites
- Vanuxemia17 sites
- Clathrospira conica16 sites
- Ctenodonta16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Liospira vitruvia, 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
9 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota18
- Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland11
- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia5
- Paleontology of the disturbed Ordovician rocks near Kentland, Indiana2
- Notes on late Middle Ordovician gastropods from the Advance Formation, northeastern British Columbia1
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario1
- The coral horizons and stratigraphy of the upper Richmond Group in Kentucky west of the Cincinnati Arch1
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee1
- The paleontology and stratigraphy of the upper Martinsburg formation of Massanutten Mountain, Virginia1
Each of the 41 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 Liospira vitruvia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Liospira vitruvia 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 itLiospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)