Peruniscus
No picture of Peruniscus 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 Peruniscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TemnodiscinaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 473.8 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.4 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
28 occurrences of Peruniscus 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
28 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
12 formations
- Sarka Formation5
- Navas de Estena Formation4
- Tachilla Formation4
- Oxford Formation3
- Schistes d'Angers Formation2
- Smithville Formation2
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The named rock units Peruniscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Peruniscus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Peruniscus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
519 taxa- Ptychonema desiderata10 sites
- Lesueurilla prima9 sites
- Colpocoryphe8 sites
- Ectillaenus6 sites
- Gompholites6 sites
- Nobiliasaphus6 sites
- Ormathops6 sites
- Placoparia6 sites
- Redonia deshayesi6 sites
- Sinuites6 sites
- Sinuites sowerbyi6 sites
- Cyrtodiscus nitidus5 sites
- Deceptrix5 sites
- Heterorthina5 sites
- Plaesiacomia5 sites
- Redonia5 sites
- Uralichas5 sites
- Barrandicella ovata4 sites
- Calix4 sites
- Cameroceras4 sites
- Elegantillites sp.4 sites
- Euorthisina4 sites
- Glyptarca4 sites
- Lophospira4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Peruniscus, 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
17 references- Estudio bioestratigrafico del Llanvirn y Llandeilo (Dobrotiviense) en la parte meridional de la zona Centroiberica (España)4
- Ordovician Tergomya and Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco)3
- Taphonomy and taxonomy of the early Ordovician gastropod Ceratopea canadensis (Billings), 18653
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)2
- The Ordovician succession from the western Iberian Ranges (NE Spain): a review with new data2
- The Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Smithville and Blackrock Formations of Southeastern Missouri2
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia2
- A low diversity Sinuites community from the Floian, Lower Ordovician, of South Wales1
- El Ordovícico Medio del Anti-Atlas marroquí: paleobiodiversidad, actualización bioestratigráfica y correlación1
- Barrandicellopsis, a new Ordovician archinacelloid genus (Mollusca, Gastropoda)1
- Chlupáč et al., 19981
- Ordovician - Devonian Gastropoda from the Klamath Mountains, California1
Each of the 28 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Peruniscus 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 Peruniscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Peruniscus 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.
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What may have been alongside itTemnodiscinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Horný 1962)