Subulites attenuatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SubulitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Subulites
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Subulites
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Subulites
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya.
4 occurrences of Subulites attenuatus 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
4 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
- Lower Visby Formation1
- Steinsfjorden Formation1
- Vik Formation1
- Slite Formation · Slite Group1
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The named rock units Subulites attenuatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Subulites attenuatus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Subulites attenuatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Boiotremus longitudinalis3 sites
- Prosoptychus sphaera3 sites
- Oriostoma globosum2 sites
- Pachystrophia gotlandicus2 sites
- Platyostoma cornutum2 sites
- Poleumita discors2 sites
- Spiroraphe aequilatera2 sites
- Armenoceras1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Bellerophontidae1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Bucania squamosus1 site
- Bucanopsis gemma1 site
- Bucanopsis latevittatus1 site
- Catenipora1 site
- Clorinda rotunda1 site
- Cyclonema crebristria1 site
- Cyrtostropha cava1 site
- Cyrtostropha subplicata1 site
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata1 site
- Euomphalopterus1 site
- Euomphalopterus alatus1 site
- Euomphalopterus praetexta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Subulites attenuatus, 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
3 references- The Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland2
- Silurian communities of the Oslo Region, Norway1
- Two new gastropod genera from the Lower Silurian of the Oslo Region, Norway1
Each of the 4 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 Subulites attenuatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Subulites attenuatus 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 itSubulites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindström 1884