Conotoma bispiralis
No picture of Conotoma bispiralis 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 Conotoma bispiralis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConotomaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Conotoma bispiralis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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 Conotoma bispiralis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conotoma bispiralis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Conotoma bispiralis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Cyrtospira ventricosus2 sites
- Isfarispira perlata2 sites
- Loxoplocus gothlandicus2 sites
- Oriostoma globosum2 sites
- Ptychocaulus bivittata2 sites
- Pycnomphalus obesus2 sites
- Tremanotus angustata2 sites
- Arctinurus1 site
- Bumastus cuniculus1 site
- Bumastus dayi1 site
- Bumastus niagarensis1 site
- Bumastus tenuis1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Ceratocephala goniata1 site
- Codonocheilus striatum1 site
- Coelocaulus longispira1 site
- Coelocaulus turritiformis1 site
- Cyrtostropha macrospira1 site
- Dalmanites1 site
- Deiphon1 site
- Dicranopeltis1 site
- Dudleyaspis1 site
- Encrinurus reflexus1 site
- Euomphalopterus alatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Conotoma bispiralis, 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- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Revision of the fauna of the Guelph formation of Ontario, with descriptions of a few new species1
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. 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 Conotoma bispiralis 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 Conotoma bispiralis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Conotoma bispiralis 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 itConotoma through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1852)