Macluritella gyroceras
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacluritellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Macluritidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Macluritidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Macluritidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 471.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 457.3 Mya.
4 occurrences of Macluritella gyroceras 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
- Tanyard Formation · Ellenburger Group2
- Chepultepec Formation1
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The named rock units Macluritella gyroceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Macluritella gyroceras and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Macluritella gyroceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Bucanella nana1 site
- Clarkoceras1 site
- Dakeoceras1 site
- Gasconadia1 site
- Gasconadia putilla1 site
- Hystricurus1 site
- Macluritella uniangulata1 site
- Macropyge1 site
- Ophileta polygyratus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Macluritella gyroceras, 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
3 references- Faunal correlations of the Ellenburger limestone of Texas2
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Middle and Lower Ordovician Formations in Southernmost Nevada and Adjacent California1
Each 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. 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
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No picture of Macluritella gyroceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Macluritella gyroceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Macluritella gyroceras 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 itMacluritella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roemer 1852)