Siluriphorus gotlandicus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SiluriphorusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Siluriphorus gotlandicus 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
7 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Siluriphorus gotlandicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Siluriphorus gotlandicus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Siluriphorus gotlandicus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
154 taxa- Poleumita discors5 sites
- Prosolarium limata5 sites
- Boiotremus longitudinalis4 sites
- Euomphalopterus alatus4 sites
- Oriostoma globosum4 sites
- Spiroraphe aequilatera4 sites
- Gotlandiela contraria3 sites
- Michelia whiteavesi3 sites
- Poleumita alatum3 sites
- Anapetopsis fasciatus2 sites
- Bucania squamosus2 sites
- Conotoma claustrata2 sites
- Dicoelosia verneuiliana2 sites
- Frodospira imbricata2 sites
- Globonema turritum2 sites
- Longstaffia laqueata2 sites
- Loxoplocus gothlandicus2 sites
- Oriostoma angulatum2 sites
- Oriostoma wisbyense2 sites
- Pilina unguis2 sites
- Poleumita rugosa2 sites
- Prosolarium halei2 sites
- Streptotrochus incisus2 sites
- Tryblidium reticulatum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Siluriphorus gotlandicus, 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 referencesEach of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Siluriphorus gotlandicus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSiluriphorus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1884)