Spiroraphe aequilatera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiroraphePBDB
- 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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Spiroraphe aequilatera 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
8 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
5 formations
- Hogklint Formation2
- Slite Beds Formation2
- Lower Visby Formation1
- Vik Formation1
- La Vieille Formation · Chaleurs Group1
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The named rock units Spiroraphe aequilatera 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.
Spiroraphe aequilatera and its relatives
SilurianWhere Spiroraphe aequilatera and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Euomphalopterus alatus6 sites
- Prosolarium limata5 sites
- Boiotremus longitudinalis4 sites
- Gotlandiela contraria4 sites
- Oriostoma globosum4 sites
- Poleumita discors4 sites
- Siluriphorus gotlandicus4 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Boucotspira lamellosus2 sites
- Boucotspira wisbyensis2 sites
- Bucania squamosus2 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus2 sites
- Globonema turritum2 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Hystricoceras lundgreni2 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis2 sites
- Loxoplocus gothlandicus2 sites
- Morphotropis helicina2 sites
- Oriostoma angulatum2 sites
- Platyostoma cornutum2 sites
- Poleumita rugosa2 sites
- Prosoptychus sphaera2 sites
- Resserella2 sites
- Rhynchotreta cuneata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Spiroraphe aequilatera, 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
4 references- The Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland5
- Two new gastropod genera from the Lower Silurian of the Oslo Region, Norway1
- Silurian Reefs of Gotland1
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port Daniel-Black Cape Region, Gaspé1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Spiroraphe aequilatera 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 Spiroraphe aequilatera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiroraphe aequilatera was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSpiroraphe through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wahlenberg 1821)