Omospira trentonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OmospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 2.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
41 occurrences of Omospira trentonensis 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
41 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
15 formations
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group6
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group5
- Denley Limestone Formation5
- Bobcaygeon Formation · Simcoe Group4
- Chaumont Formation3
- Farr Formation3
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The named rock units Omospira trentonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Omospira trentonensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Omospira trentonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
462 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis29 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus23 sites
- Eroicaspira bellicincta19 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata19 sites
- Lophospira perangulata18 sites
- Cyrtostropha salteri17 sites
- Liospira progne16 sites
- Paucicrura rogata16 sites
- Fusispira subfusiformis14 sites
- Modiolopsis14 sites
- Cymatonota13 sites
- Cyrtodonta13 sites
- Fusispira angusta13 sites
- Fusispira ventricosa13 sites
- Isotelus gigas13 sites
- Liospira americana13 sites
- Liospira vitruvia13 sites
- Lophospira major13 sites
- Phragmolites compressus13 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra12 sites
- Cyrtodontula12 sites
- Fusispira inflata12 sites
- Fusispira intermedia12 sites
- Fusispira subbrevis12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Omospira trentonensis, 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
7 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota13
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario9
- Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland8
- R. Titus unpublished collections5
- The Palaeozoic Outlier of Lake Timiskaming, Ontario and Quebec3
- Fossil communities of the lower Trenton Group (Middle Ordovician) of central and northwestern New York State2
- Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species1
Each of the 41 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 Omospira trentonensis 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 Omospira trentonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Omospira trentonensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itOmospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)