Promourlonia furcata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PromourloniaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 425 Mya.
5 occurrences of Promourlonia furcata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
4 formations
- Cape Phillips Formation2
- Upper Visby Formation1
- Wood Burn Formation1
- Penkill Formation · Penkill Group1
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The named rock units Promourlonia furcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Promourlonia furcata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Promourlonia furcata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Murchisonia obtusangula2 sites
- Oriostoma2 sites
- Pachystrophia gotlandicus2 sites
- Platyostoma boggsi2 sites
- Acernaspis (Eskaspis) woodburnensis1 site
- Borealarges mikulicorum1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Cyrtostropha subplicata1 site
- Edgecombeaspis1 site
- Encrinurus1 site
- Euomphalopterus alatus1 site
- Gerastos granulatus1 site
- Gotlandiela contraria1 site
- Illaenidae1 site
- Katastrophomena penkillensis1 site
- Kettneraspis wrightae1 site
- Leonaspis1 site
- Leperditia1 site
- Leptaena zeta1 site
- Liospira lenticularis1 site
- Odontopleuridae1 site
- Otarion1 site
- Platyceras (Platyceras) cornutum loricatum1 site
- Proetus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Promourlonia furcata, 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
2 references- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)3
- Descriptions of Gasteropoda, chiefly in Mrs. Robert Gray's collection, from the Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Girvan2
Each of the 5 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 Promourlonia furcata 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 Promourlonia furcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Promourlonia furcata 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 itPromourlonia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Longstaff 1924