Subulites priscus

Subulites priscus

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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 most 3.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461.4 Mya and 458 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461.9 Mya457.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Subulites priscus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

5 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

2 formations

Väo — 59.42°N, 24.75°EKörgekallas — 59.42°N, 24.75°E

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The named rock units Subulites priscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Subulites priscus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Subulites priscus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Subulites priscus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Subulites priscus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Subulites priscus 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 itSubulites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Eichwald 1860