Urosoma hirudo

No picture of Urosoma hirudo 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 Urosoma hirudo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtasterPBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurian450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445.5 Mya426.7 Mya450.1 Mya422.2 Mya

2 occurrences of Urosoma hirudo 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

2 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

Bannisdale Slates — 54.32°N, 2.73°WGeorgian Bay — 44.54°N, 80.52°W

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

Urosoma hirudo and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Urosoma hirudo and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Urosoma hirudo, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 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

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No picture of Urosoma hirudo 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 Urosoma hirudo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Urosoma hirudo 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 itProtaster through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1848)