Serpulites

Serpulites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SerpulimorphaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Motility
stationary, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Serpulimorpha

Time the record covers

At least 210 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 60 occurrencesOrdovician — about 21 of 60 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 25 of 60 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 12 of 60 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 60 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 60 occurrencesPermian491–483 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences483–475 Mya — about 1 occurrence475–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–445 Mya — about 14 occurrences445–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–429 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences429–422 Mya — about 23 occurrences422–414 Mya — about 1 occurrence414–406 Mya — about 2 occurrences406–398 Mya — about 3 occurrences398–391 Mya — about 3 occurrences391–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–375 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences375–368 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences368–360 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–291 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences291–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence477.1 Mya266.9 Mya491 Mya260 Mya

60 occurrences of Serpulites 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

60 occurrences

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

28 formations

Overton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WPonta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitby — 45.50°N, 81.00°WPonta Grossa Shale — 7.00°S, 38.00°WLiben — 49.82°N, 13.70°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.75°ESchaghticoke — 42.64°N, 73.61°WHighgate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WDeepkill Shale — 42.65°N, 73.76°WUtica Shale — 43.21°N, 75.46°WLangoyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangara — 60.00°N, 11.00°EHusbergoya Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°EBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMount Auburn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFiddlers Green — 42.85°N, 78.80°WLetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EUpper Whitcliffe — 52.00°N, 3.00°WGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EVoorstehoek — 33.50°S, 19.82°ECordobes — 33.00°S, 55.00°WBrinkmarsh Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°W

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The named rock units Serpulites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Serpulites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Serpulites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

748 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Serpulites, 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

20 references

Each of the 60 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. 8 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

Media content1

Picture of Serpulites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Serpulites 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 itSerpulimorpha through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.