Fusispira obesus
No picture of Fusispira obesus 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 Fusispira obesus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FusispiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Subulitidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Subulitidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Subulitidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Fusispira obesus 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
11 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
2 formations
- Smithville Formation10
- Fort Cassin Formation · Beekmantown Group1
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The named rock units Fusispira obesus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fusispira obesus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Fusispira obesus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Lophonema circumlirata11 sites
- Cephalopoda8 sites
- Ceratopea unguis8 sites
- Hormotoma artemesia8 sites
- Lophonema8 sites
- Lophospira perangulata8 sites
- Lophonema taneyensis7 sites
- Eoleperditia6 sites
- Hormotoma6 sites
- Straparollina cassina6 sites
- Teiichispira ponderosa6 sites
- Turritoma acrea6 sites
- Clathrospira virguncula5 sites
- Eopteria richardsoni5 sites
- Hormotoma confusa5 sites
- Ceratoleperditia4 sites
- Ceratopea depressa4 sites
- Clathrospira4 sites
- Hormotoma anna4 sites
- Lophospira4 sites
- Acidiphorus3 sites
- Ceratopea3 sites
- Diparelasma3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Fusispira obesus, 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)10
- Notice of geological investigations along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, conducted by Prof. H.J. Seely and Pres. Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College, with descriptions of the new fossils discovered1
Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Fusispira obesus 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 Fusispira obesus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fusispira obesus 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 itFusispira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whitfield 1886)