Oriostoma roemeri

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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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Oriostoma roemeri 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
8 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
5 formations
- Upper Visby Formation3
- Högklint Formation2
- Lower Visby Formation1
- Lower Visby Beds Formation1
- Upper Visby Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Oriostoma roemeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oriostoma roemeri and its relatives
SilurianWhere Oriostoma roemeri and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Catenipora escharoides3 sites
- Euomphalopterus alatus3 sites
- Oriostoma globosum3 sites
- Phaulactis3 sites
- Planalveolites3 sites
- Resserella3 sites
- Thecia3 sites
- Tryplasma3 sites
- Wallacia laevis3 sites
- Apatobolbina2 sites
- Boiotremus longitudinalis2 sites
- Ceramopora lindstromi2 sites
- Clisiophyllum2 sites
- Clorinda rotunda2 sites
- Craspedobolbina2 sites
- Cyclonema delicatula2 sites
- Discordichilus obesum2 sites
- Euomphalopterus undulans2 sites
- Goniophyllum2 sites
- Holopea scalariforme2 sites
- Loxoplocus gothlandicus2 sites
- Oriostoma giganteum2 sites
- Phanerotrema lindstroemi2 sites
- Prosolarium limata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Oriostoma roemeri, 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
4 references- Silurian Reefs of Gotland3
- The Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland3
- Lower Wenlock faunal and floral dynamics - Vattenfallet section, Gotland1
- Gastropods1
Each of the 8 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 roemeri
- 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 roemeri 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. (Lindström 1884)