Oriostoma angulatum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OriostomaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Oriostoma
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Oriostoma
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Oriostoma
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 425 Mya.
9 occurrences of Oriostoma angulatum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician22%
- Silurian78%
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
7 formations
- Slite Beds Formation2
- Lower Visby Formation1
- Upper Visby Formation1
- Klinteberg Beds Formation1
- Telsitna Formation1
- Port Clarence Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Oriostoma angulatum 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.
Oriostoma angulatum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Oriostoma angulatum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
244 taxa- Oriostoma globosum5 sites
- Prosolarium limata5 sites
- Platyostoma cornutum4 sites
- Poleumita discors4 sites
- Acervularia3 sites
- Algae3 sites
- Anthozoa3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Boiotremus longitudinalis3 sites
- Bucania squamosus3 sites
- Calymene3 sites
- Cephalopoda3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata3 sites
- Encrinurus punctatus3 sites
- Euomphalopterus alatus3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus3 sites
- Gotlandiela contraria3 sites
- Halysites catenularius3 sites
- Heliolites3 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis3 sites
- Rothpletzella3 sites
- Streptotrochus incisus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Oriostoma angulatum, 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
5 references- Silurian Reefs of Gotland3
- The Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland3
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Upper Ordovician Gastropoda from west-central Alaska1
- Two new gastropod genera from the Lower Silurian of the Oslo Region, Norway1
Each of the 9 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

Picture of Oriostoma angulatum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Oriostoma angulatum 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 itOriostoma through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wahlenberg 1821)