Lytospira

Lytospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiletidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 41 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 35 of 41 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 41 occurrencesSilurian498–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–493 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences491–488 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences478–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences473–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–462 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 5 occurrences455–452 Mya — about 5 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 11 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–434 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences486.85 Mya425 Mya498 Mya421 Mya

41 occurrences of Lytospira 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

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

29 formations

Kopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.97°N, 14.17°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°EDubuque — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WVaureal — 49.91°N, 64.21°WEllis Bay — 49.80°N, 64.30°WMcGregor — 40.78°N, 87.39°WHolen — 60.55°N, 14.35°EHolen — 57.72°N, 11.97°ESnowy Range — 45.87°N, 111.00°WSnowy Range — 45.92°N, 111.25°WSolvang — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELebanon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WPort Clarence Limestone — 65.50°N, 165.92°WShallow Bay — 49.96°N, 57.77°WLoobu — 59.42°N, 25.24°ESaunja — 59.21°N, 25.10°E

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The named rock units Lytospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lytospira and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Lytospira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

658 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Lytospira, 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

19 references

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. 7 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 Lytospira

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lytospira 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 itOphiletidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koken 1896