Paupospira moorei
No picture of Paupospira moorei 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 Paupospira moorei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaupospiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 300 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
8 occurrences of Paupospira moorei 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
8 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
5 formations
- Ellis Bay Formation3
- Vaureal Formation2
- Whitewater Formation1
- Saluda Formation1
- Dillsboro Formation · Richmondian Group1
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The named rock units Paupospira moorei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paupospira moorei and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paupospira moorei and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Paupospira tropidophora4 sites
- Arjamannia sybellina3 sites
- Brachytomaria papillosa3 sites
- Clathrospira subconica3 sites
- Cyclonema thalia3 sites
- Cyrtospira notata3 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis3 sites
- Liospira americana3 sites
- Lytospira nitida3 sites
- Sinuites bilobatus3 sites
- Sphenosphaera mohri3 sites
- Alaskadiscus giganteus2 sites
- Eospirigerina2 sites
- Paupospira bowdeni2 sites
- Paupospira circe2 sites
- Paupospira manitouliensis2 sites
- Phragmolites dyeri2 sites
- Strophomena2 sites
- Subulites ellisensis2 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta2 sites
- Alaskadiscus magnus1 site
- Ambonychia obesa1 site
- Archinacella indianensis1 site
- Astakocrinus teren1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Paupospira moorei, 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
3 references- Geology of Anticosti Island3
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota3
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)2
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 content0
No picture of Paupospira moorei 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 Paupospira moorei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paupospira moorei 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPaupospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)