Malayaspira affinis
No picture of Malayaspira affinis 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 affinis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MalayaspiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Malayaspira
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Malayaspira
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Malayaspira
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Malayaspira affinis 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
2 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
- Boat Harbour Formation · St. George Group1
- Catoche Formation · St. George Group1
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The named rock units Malayaspira affinis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Malayaspira affinis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Malayaspira affinis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Bathyurellus abruptus2 sites
- Benthamaspis2 sites
- Bolbocephalus convexus2 sites
- Isoteloides peri2 sites
- Jeffersonia jenni2 sites
- Maclurites2 sites
- Petigurus nero2 sites
- Protocycloceras lamarcki2 sites
- Strigigenalis crassimarginata2 sites
- Tritoechia2 sites
- Bathyurellus1 site
- Benthamaspis conica1 site
- Benthamaspis gibberula1 site
- Billingsella1 site
- Calathium1 site
- Cassinoceras wortheni1 site
- Catochia ornata1 site
- Ceratopea canadensis1 site
- Ceratopea capuliformis1 site
- Euchasma blumenbachi1 site
- Euconia etna1 site
- Hormotoma1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Ischyrotoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Malayaspira affinis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Malayaspira affinis 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 affinis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Malayaspira affinis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMalayaspira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1865