Lytospira nitida
No picture of Lytospira nitida was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lytospira nitida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LytospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lytospira
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lytospira
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Lytospira
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lytospira nitida 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
4 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 Lytospira nitida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lytospira nitida and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lytospira nitida and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Arjamannia sybellina3 sites
- Brachytomaria papillosa3 sites
- Clathrospira subconica3 sites
- Cyclonema thalia3 sites
- Cyrtospira notata3 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis3 sites
- Liospira americana3 sites
- Paupospira manitouliensis3 sites
- Paupospira moorei3 sites
- Sinuites bilobatus3 sites
- Loxobucania ellisensis2 sites
- Paupospira circe2 sites
- Subulites ellisensis2 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta2 sites
- Alaskadiscus giganteus1 site
- Myocaris plicata1 site
- Paraliospira helena1 site
- Paupospira tropidophora1 site
- Phragmolites desideratus1 site
- Salpingostoma canadensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lytospira nitida, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 4 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
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No picture of Lytospira nitida was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lytospira nitida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lytospira nitida 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 itLytospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Twenhofel 1928)