Eunema helicteres
No picture of Eunema helicteres 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 Eunema helicteres, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EunemaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
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.
19 occurrences of Eunema helicteres 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
19 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
13 formations
- St. Peter Sandstone Formation4
- Platteville Formation · Black River Group2
- Quimbys Mill Formation2
- McGregor Formation · Platteville Group2
- Decorah Shale Formation1
- Pecatonica Formation1
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The named rock units Eunema helicteres has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eunema helicteres and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eunema helicteres and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
198 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis17 sites
- Lophospira serrulata14 sites
- Lophospira ventricosa14 sites
- Clathrospira subconica13 sites
- Paraliospira supracingulata12 sites
- Eunema centralis11 sites
- Lophospira perangulata11 sites
- Helicotoma planulata10 sites
- Holopea ampla10 sites
- Holopea rotunda10 sites
- Lesueurilla beloitensis10 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata10 sites
- Cyrtodonta9 sites
- Fusispira spicula9 sites
- Lytospira undulatus9 sites
- Ophiletina sublaxa9 sites
- Phragmolites triangularis9 sites
- Tetranota macra9 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta9 sites
- Tetranota wisconsinensis9 sites
- Tryblidium exserta9 sites
- Vanuxemia9 sites
- Ambonychiopsis8 sites
- Cymatonota8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Eunema helicteres, 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
6 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota10
- The St. Peter Sandstone of Southeastern Minnesota: Fauna2
- Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland2
- Paleontology of the disturbed Ordovician rocks near Kentland, Indiana2
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota2
- Phylogenetic analysis of the Lophospiridae (Gastropoda : Pleurotomariina) of the Ordovician and Silurian1
Each of the 19 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 content0
No picture of Eunema helicteres 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 Eunema helicteres, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eunema helicteres 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 itEunema through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Salter 1859)