Sulcatospira prima
No picture of Sulcatospira prima 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 Sulcatospira prima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SulcatospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Sulcatospira prima 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Sulcatospira prima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sulcatospira prima and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sulcatospira prima and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Dinorthis taukensis3 sites
- Nalivkinia (Pronalivkinia)3 sites
- Rhynchotrema seletensis3 sites
- Rongatrypa zvontsovi3 sites
- Shlyginia extraordinaria3 sites
- Dinorthis2 sites
- Glyptomena kaskolica2 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sinensis2 sites
- Tetraphalerella bestiubensis2 sites
- Altaethyrella otarica1 site
- Anoptambonites kovalevskii1 site
- Birmanites1 site
- Bokotorthis kasachstanica1 site
- Ceraurinella kasachstanica1 site
- Dzhebaglina plicata1 site
- Eokosovopeltis1 site
- Khangailites1 site
- Mabella1 site
- Paraoligorhyncha1 site
- Phaceloorthis recondita1 site
- Plaesiomys fidelis1 site
- Pliomerina1 site
- Propora1 site
- Rhabdotetradium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Sulcatospira prima, 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 references- Late Ordovician brachiopods from the Selety river basin, north Central Kazakhstan3
- Late Ordovician brachiopods from the Otar Member of the Chu-Ili Range, south Kazakhstan3
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Sulcatospira prima 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 Sulcatospira prima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sulcatospira prima 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSulcatospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popov et al. 1999