Lophospira

Lophospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophospiridaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.4 Mya to 430.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 732 of 734 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 734 occurrencesSilurian484–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 6 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 6 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 7 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 7 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 8 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 8 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 12 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 13 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 15 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 14 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 14 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 17 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 23 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 48 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 97 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 92 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 89 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 139 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 52 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 41 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 18 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 5 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477.1 Mya432.9 Mya484 Mya430 Mya

734 occurrences of Lophospira 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

734 occurrences

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

177 formations

Dunleith — 42.02°N, 93.45°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDunleith — 42.42°N, 90.43°WCliffield — 37.15°N, 81.49°WCliffield — 37.13°N, 81.41°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.33°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WCliffield — 37.17°N, 81.48°WCliffield — 37.06°N, 81.76°WCliffield — 37.10°N, 81.56°WCliffield — 37.00°N, 81.00°WCliffield — 37.02°N, 81.63°WSmithville — 37.33°N, 89.90°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.41°N, 89.87°WSmithville — 37.35°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.35°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.21°N, 89.85°WSmithville — 37.16°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.20°N, 89.75°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 37.94°N, 84.14°WLexington Limestone — 37.90°N, 84.27°WLexington Limestone — 38.35°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 38.20°N, 84.89°WLexington Limestone — 37.84°N, 84.59°WLexington Limestone — 37.99°N, 84.45°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.61°WLexington Limestone — 37.69°N, 84.76°WLexington Limestone — 37.67°N, 84.94°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 37.85°N, 84.51°WLexington Limestone — 37.75°N, 84.77°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WVerulam — 44.02°N, 77.15°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 79.17°WMaJiaGou — 42.00°N, 126.00°EMaJiaGou — 39.42°N, 121.75°EMaJiaGou — 39.67°N, 118.25°EMaJiaGou — 41.36°N, 123.39°EKangaroo Creek — 41.37°N, 122.69°WKangaroo Creek — 41.42°N, 122.77°WMcGregor — 42.73°N, 90.48°WMcGregor — 42.00°N, 89.39°WMcGregor — 42.81°N, 89.64°WMcGregor — 40.78°N, 87.39°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WChaumont — 45.88°N, 76.93°WChaumont — 45.52°N, 73.58°WChaumont — 45.41°N, 75.73°WChaumont — 45.33°N, 75.72°WCatheys — 36.35°N, 85.79°WCatheys — 35.62°N, 87.10°WCatheys — 35.50°N, 86.50°WCatheys — 36.29°N, 85.99°WCatheys — 35.17°N, 87.04°WCatheys — 36.37°N, 85.64°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.01°N, 84.45°WFairview — 39.03°N, 84.51°WFairview — 38.68°N, 83.79°WBobcaygeon — 44.67°N, 78.80°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon — 44.50°N, 79.20°WBobcaygeon — 44.60°N, 79.00°WBobcaygeon — 45.88°N, 76.93°WBobcaygeon — 45.54°N, 75.29°WCrown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WCrown Point — 44.63°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 44.87°N, 73.33°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WKope — 38.87°N, 84.46°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKope — 39.01°N, 84.53°WKope — 38.43°N, 83.99°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBellevue — 39.03°N, 84.51°WBellevue — 39.30°N, 84.40°WBellevue — 38.68°N, 83.79°WPlatteville — 43.00°N, 91.16°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 43.30°N, 91.78°WPlatteville — 42.51°N, 89.03°WAntelope Valley — 38.05°N, 116.45°WAntelope Valley — 37.35°N, 115.77°WAntelope Valley — 39.19°N, 116.38°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.66°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WBull Fork — 38.40°N, 83.72°WCarters — 35.80°N, 86.20°WCarters — 35.81°N, 86.13°WCarters — 36.14°N, 86.38°WCarters — 36.19°N, 85.95°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.49°N, 84.07°WWaynesville — 38.77°N, 85.36°WCarters Limestone — 36.12°N, 86.67°WCarters Limestone — 35.80°N, 86.12°WCarters Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WKangyao — 41.36°N, 123.54°EClays Ferry — 37.65°N, 85.07°WClays Ferry — 38.36°N, 84.36°WClays Ferry — 38.38°N, 84.30°WClays Ferry — 39.09°N, 84.50°W

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The named rock units Lophospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 153 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 67 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lophospira and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Lophospira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,696 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 545 sites for Lophospira, and this reads 240 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

128 references

Each of the 734 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. 116 further references are not listed. 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 Lophospira

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 itLophospiridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whitfield 1886)