Fusispira spicula

No picture of Fusispira spicula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 spicula, 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 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.

Ordovician — about 18 of 18 occurrencesOrdovician458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457.8 Mya449.1 Mya

18 occurrences of Fusispira spicula 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

18 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

14 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGlenwood — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGlenwood — 42.00°N, 90.50°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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

Fusispira spicula and its relatives

Ordovician

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

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Fusispira spicula, 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

1 reference

Each of the 18 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

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No picture of Fusispira spicula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 spicula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Fusispira spicula 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 itFusispira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sardeson 1892