Orospira
No picture of Orospira was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata 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 Orospira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RaphistomatidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 30 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Orospira 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
17 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
6 formations
- Honeycut Formation · Ellenburger Group4
- Rich Fountain Formation4
- Theodosia Formation4
- Cotter Formation2
- Newala Formation · Knox Group2
- Rockdale Run Formation1
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The named rock units Orospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orospira and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Orospira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Bridgeites planidorsalis3 sites
- Ceratopea3 sites
- Hormotoma3 sites
- Archaeoscyphia annulata2 sites
- Ceratopea subconica2 sites
- Eopteria richardsoni2 sites
- Finkelnburgia2 sites
- Lesueurilla2 sites
- Lophonema taneyensis2 sites
- Mcqueenoceras2 sites
- Moreauoceras2 sites
- Plethospira2 sites
- Allopiloceras1 site
- Aphetoceras1 site
- Archaeoscyphia1 site
- Bathyurellus1 site
- Benthamaspis mediacrista1 site
- Bolbocephalus jeffersonensis1 site
- Bridgeites supraconvexa1 site
- Ceratopea capuliformis1 site
- Ceratopea grandis1 site
- Ceratopea hami1 site
- Ceratopea tennesseensis1 site
- Ceratopea unguis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Orospira, 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- The stratigraphy of some Lower Ordovician formations of the Ozark uplift10
- Organic buildups in the Lower Ordovician (Canadian) of Texas and Oklahoma2
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Early Ordovician Sea in Central Texas1
- Beekmantown Group (Lower Ordovician) of Maryland1
- Contributions to the Paleontology of Northwest Georgia1
- New gastropods and trilobites critical in the correlation of Lower Ordovician rocks1
Each of the 17 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 Orospira was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata 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 Orospira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orospira 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 itRaphistomatidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Butts 1926