Carinaropsis minima
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarinaropsisPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Pterothecidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterothecidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pterothecidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Carinaropsis minima 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
17 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
9 formations
- Lexington Limestone Formation5
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group4
- Ion Formation · Galena Group2
- Decorah Shale Formation1
- Cummingsville Formation1
- Spechts Ferry Formation1
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The named rock units Carinaropsis minima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Carinaropsis minima and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Carinaropsis minima and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
273 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis12 sites
- Vanuxemia12 sites
- Clathrospira subconica11 sites
- Ctenodonta11 sites
- Cyclonema textilis11 sites
- Cyrtolites retrorsus11 sites
- Eunema concinnula11 sites
- Lyrodesma11 sites
- Paupospira oweni11 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus11 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata11 sites
- Clathrospira conica10 sites
- Cyrtodonta10 sites
- Eunema centralis10 sites
- Liospira angustata10 sites
- Liospira vitruvia10 sites
- Modiolodon10 sites
- Modiolopsis10 sites
- Phragmolites obliquus10 sites
- Salpingostoma buelli10 sites
- Scalites peracutum10 sites
- Sinuites pervoluta10 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta10 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Carinaropsis minima, 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
5 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota9
- Middle and Upper Ordovician symmetrical univalved mollusks (Monoplacophora and Bellerophontina) of the Cincinnati Arch region5
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario1
- The fauna of the residuary Auburn chert of Lincoln County, Missouri1
Each of the 17 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 Carinaropsis minima 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 Carinaropsis minima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Carinaropsis minima 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 itCarinaropsis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897