Lophospira manitoulinensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LophospiraPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Lophospira
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lophospira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lophospira
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lophospira manitoulinensis 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 Lophospira manitoulinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lophospira manitoulinensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lophospira manitoulinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Archinacella kagawongensis1 site
- Byssonychia borealis1 site
- Colpomya1 site
- Columnaria calicina1 site
- Constellaria polystomella1 site
- Ctenodonta iphigenia1 site
- Cyrtodonta exigua1 site
- Cyrtodonta kagawongensis1 site
- Cyrtodonta ponderosa1 site
- Girvanella richmondensis1 site
- Ischyrodonta manitoulinensis1 site
- Isotelus gigas1 site
- Joleaudella perstriatus1 site
- Lyopora goldfussi1 site
- Modiolodon kagawongensis1 site
- Modiolopsis vera1 site
- Nucularca cingulata1 site
- Ortonella gorensis1 site
- Ortonella stewarti1 site
- Protaraea richmondensis1 site
- Pterinea demissa1 site
- Rhombotrypa quadrata1 site
- Rhytimya kagawongensis1 site
- Salpingostoma lata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lophospira manitoulinensis, 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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Lophospira manitoulinensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lophospira manitoulinensis 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 itLophospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1924