Plethospira cannonensis
No picture of Plethospira cannonensis 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 Plethospira cannonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlethospiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Plethospira
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Plethospira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Plethospira
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Plethospira cannonensis 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Plethospira cannonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plethospira cannonensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Plethospira cannonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Lophospira perangulata2 sites
- Archinacella simplex1 site
- Cameroceras1 site
- Ceratopea1 site
- Ceratopea parvum1 site
- Ceratopea pygmaea1 site
- Clathrospira1 site
- Clathrospira virguncula1 site
- Endoceras eburneolum1 site
- Euomphalopsis depressa1 site
- Fusispira obesus1 site
- Hormotoma cassina1 site
- Lecanospira transversocordatus1 site
- Lophonema circumlirata1 site
- Lophonema taneyensis1 site
- Plethospira cassina1 site
- Raphistoma shakopeense1 site
- Straparollina cassina1 site
- Stylocyrtoceras tantillum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plethospira cannonensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- A diminutive fauna from the Shakopee Dolomite (Ordovician) at Cannon Falls, Minnesota1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Plethospira cannonensis 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 Plethospira cannonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plethospira cannonensis 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 itPlethospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stauffer 1937)