Malayaspira
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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 5.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 473.1 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 457.3 Mya.
34 occurrences of Malayaspira 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
34 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
12 formations
- Lower Setul Formation7
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group6
- Catoche Formation · St. George Group5
- Table Point Formation · Table Head Group4
- Boat Harbour Formation · St. George Group3
- Wuting Formation2
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The named rock units Malayaspira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Malayaspira and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Malayaspira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
141 taxa- Eroicaspira simulatrix6 sites
- Asgardaspira measuresae5 sites
- Lophospira perangulata5 sites
- Ceratopea lemonei4 sites
- Donaldiella cicelia4 sites
- Euconia etna4 sites
- Teiichispira zonata4 sites
- Boucotspira antelopensis3 sites
- Ecculiomphalus harrisae3 sites
- Lesueurilla3 sites
- Ormoceras3 sites
- Palliseria crenulata3 sites
- Palliseria robusta3 sites
- Scalites jonesi3 sites
- Scalites keizanensis3 sites
- Semizona glindmeyeri3 sites
- Straparollina pelagica3 sites
- Bathyurellus abruptus2 sites
- Benthamaspis2 sites
- Bolbocephalus convexus2 sites
- Ectomaria adelina2 sites
- Euchasma blumenbachi2 sites
- Euchasma jonesi2 sites
- Euchasma mytiliforme2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Malayaspira, 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
12 references- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)8
- On some Ordovician fossils from northern Malaya and her adjacence6
- Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian) gastropods of western Newfoundland: Macluritoidea and Euomphaloidea4
- Palaeozoic fossils, volume 14
- Ordovician (Whiterockian) gastropods of Nevada: Bellerophontoidea, Macluritoidea, Euomphaloidea3
- Macropaleontological investigation of the Upper St. George Group, West Isthmus Bay to East Bay section, Port au Port Peninsula, Western Newfoundland2
- Stratigraphically significant Early and Middle Ordovician gastropod occurrences, Western and Northwestern Canada2
- First record of Malayaspira Kobayashi, 1958 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Lower-Middle Ordovician San Juan Formation, Argentine Precordillera1
- Ordovician (Whiterockian) gastropods of Nevada, Part 21
- Early Ordovician gastropods from the Canning Basin, Western Australia1
- Some Ordovician fossils from the Thailand-Malayan borderland1
- Observations on the fauna of the rocks at Fort Cassin, Vermont, with descriptions of a few new species1
Each of the 34 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 Malayaspira 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 Malayaspira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Malayaspira 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.
Keep going
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. Kobayashi 1958