Craspedostoma elegantulum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CraspedostomaPBDB
- Diet
- parasite, carnivorePBDB, for Platyceratoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Platyceratoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Platyceratoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 425 Mya.
3 occurrences of Craspedostoma elegantulum 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
3 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 Craspedostoma elegantulum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Craspedostoma elegantulum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Craspedostoma elegantulum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Loxoplocus gothlandicus3 sites
- Poleumita discors3 sites
- Acervularia2 sites
- Algae2 sites
- Anthozoa2 sites
- Ascoceras2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Aulopora2 sites
- Beyrichia2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Bumastus2 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Cephalopoda2 sites
- Coenites2 sites
- Conocardioidea2 sites
- Conotoma gradata2 sites
- Cornulites2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cyclonema2 sites
- Cypricardinia2 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata2 sites
- Diploepora2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Craspedostoma elegantulum, 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 referencesEach of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Craspedostoma elegantulum
- 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 Craspedostoma elegantulum was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itCraspedostoma through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindström 1884