Fusispira ovalis

Fusispira ovalis

Paalits, I. · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.5 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451 Mya449 Mya

3 occurrences of Fusispira ovalis 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

3 occurrences

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

3 formations

Saunja — 59.13°N, 24.47°EKorgessaare — 59.13°N, 24.47°EKõrgessaare — 59.02°N, 23.14°E

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The named rock units Fusispira ovalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Fusispira ovalis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Fusispira ovalis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Fusispira ovalis, 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

3 references

Each 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Fusispira ovalis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Paalits, I.
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Fusispira ovalis 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. (Koken 1897)