Maclurites altus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacluritesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Maclurites
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Maclurites
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Maclurites
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Maclurites altus 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
11 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
- Portage Chute Formation · Bad Cache Rapids Group3
- Amadjuak Formation2
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The named rock units Maclurites altus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Maclurites altus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Maclurites altus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Receptaculites8 sites
- Elrodoceras5 sites
- Streptelasma arcticum4 sites
- Calapoecia3 sites
- Catenipora aequabilis3 sites
- Catenipora robusta3 sites
- Cyrtogomphoceras3 sites
- Fusispira gigantea3 sites
- Grewingkia robusta3 sites
- Hormotoma winnipegensis3 sites
- Maclurina manitobensis3 sites
- Manipora3 sites
- Palaeophyllum3 sites
- Plasmopora3 sites
- Saffordophyllum3 sites
- Trochonema coxi3 sites
- Westonoceras3 sites
- Winnipegoceras laticurvatum3 sites
- Billingsites2 sites
- Calapoecia anticostiensis2 sites
- Catenipora2 sites
- Catenipora agglomeratiformis2 sites
- Charactoceras2 sites
- Diceromyonia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Maclurites altus, 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
3 references- Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island7
- Ordovician paleontology of the Northern Hudson Bay lowland3
- Notes on the Baffinland fossils collected by J. Dewey Soper during 1925 and 19291
Each of the 11 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
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Maclurites altus 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 Maclurites altus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMaclurites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1931