Paupospira sumnerensis
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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 800 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 451 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
16 occurrences of Paupospira sumnerensis 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
16 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
8 formations
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group6
- Bigby-Cannon Limestone Formation3
- Lexington Limestone Formation2
- Martinsburg Formation1
- Cummingsville Formation1
- Prosser Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Paupospira sumnerensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paupospira sumnerensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paupospira sumnerensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
206 taxa- Paupospira burginensis13 sites
- Alaskadiscus subacutus10 sites
- Ctenodonta10 sites
- Cyrtodonta10 sites
- Liospira progne10 sites
- Lophospira perangulata10 sites
- Vanuxemia10 sites
- Cuneamya9 sites
- Cymatonota9 sites
- Cyrtodontula9 sites
- Cyrtostropha salteri9 sites
- Eunema concinnula9 sites
- Globonema niota9 sites
- Liospira vitruvia9 sites
- Orthodesma9 sites
- Rhytimya9 sites
- Sphenosphaera rogersensis9 sites
- Ambonychiopsis8 sites
- Bucania sublata8 sites
- Clathrospira conica8 sites
- Clathrospira subconica8 sites
- Cleionychia8 sites
- Cyclonema textilis8 sites
- Eunema simile8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Paupospira sumnerensis, 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
6 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota8
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee3
- Phylogenetic analysis of the Lophospiridae (Gastropoda : Pleurotomariina) of the Ordovician and Silurian2
- Ordovician - Devonian Gastropoda from the Klamath Mountains, California1
- The paleontology and stratigraphy of the upper Martinsburg formation of Massanutten Mountain, Virginia1
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota1
Each of the 16 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 Paupospira sumnerensis 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 Paupospira sumnerensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paupospira sumnerensis 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 itPaupospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Safford 1869)