Clathrospira subconica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClathrospiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 8.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 445.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
56 occurrences of Clathrospira subconica 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
56 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
28 formations
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group8
- Chaumont Formation4
- Vauréal Formation4
- McGregor Formation · Platteville Group4
- Quimbys Mill Formation · Platteville Group3
- Lexington Limestone Formation3
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The named rock units Clathrospira subconica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Clathrospira subconica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Clathrospira subconica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
490 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis37 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata26 sites
- Cyrtodonta25 sites
- Eunema centralis25 sites
- Lophospira perangulata24 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta24 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata24 sites
- Paraliospira supracingulata23 sites
- Cyrtodontula22 sites
- Liospira americana22 sites
- Liospira angustata22 sites
- Liospira vitruvia22 sites
- Lophospira serrulata22 sites
- Ctenodonta21 sites
- Vanuxemia21 sites
- Clathrospira conica19 sites
- Fusispira spicula18 sites
- Salpingostoma buelli18 sites
- Ambonychiopsis17 sites
- Gyronema semicarinatum17 sites
- Paupospira burginensis17 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus17 sites
- Bucania sublata16 sites
- Cyclonema textilis16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Clathrospira subconica, 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
15 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota24
- Geology of Anticosti Island7
- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec5
- Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland4
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota4
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)2
- Paleontology of the disturbed Ordovician rocks near Kentland, Indiana2
- Ordovician Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from North America1
- Phylogenetic analysis of the Lophospiridae (Gastropoda : Pleurotomariina) of the Ordovician and Silurian1
- Middle Ordovician Lophospira (Archaeogastropoda) from the Upper Mississippi Valley1
- Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky1
- A Middle Ordovician fauna from Braeside, Ottawa Valley, Ontario1
Each of the 56 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Clathrospira subconica
- 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 Clathrospira subconica 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 itClathrospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1847)