Serpulospira laxus
No picture of Serpulospira laxus 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 Serpulospira laxus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SerpulospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulospira
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulospira
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Serpulospira
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Serpulospira laxus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group2
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The named rock units Serpulospira laxus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Serpulospira laxus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Serpulospira laxus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Ambocoelia umbonata2 sites
- Eldredgeops rana2 sites
- Hallinetes setigera2 sites
- Klocinetes lepidus2 sites
- Mucrospirifer mucronatus2 sites
- Nuculites2 sites
- Primitiopsis2 sites
- Pterochaenia2 sites
- Retispira leda2 sites
- Styliolina fissurella2 sites
- Athyris spiriferoides1 site
- Bactrites1 site
- Calvibembexia sulcomarginata1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Cyrtolites1 site
- Devonoblastus1 site
- Devonochonetes scitulus1 site
- Dipleura dekayi1 site
- Echinocaris1 site
- Grammysia arcuata1 site
- Greenops boothi1 site
- Heliophyllum1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Serpulospira laxus, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Serpulospira laxus 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 Serpulospira laxus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Serpulospira laxus 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 itSerpulospira through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1859)