Gotlandiela contraria
No picture of Gotlandiela contraria 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 Gotlandiela contraria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GotlandielaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
9 occurrences of Gotlandiela contraria 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
9 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
6 formations
- Lower Visby Formation2
- Hogklint Formation2
- Upper Visby Formation1
- Hamra Beds Formation1
- Slite Beds Formation1
- Högklint Formation1
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The named rock units Gotlandiela contraria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gotlandiela contraria and its relatives
SilurianWhere Gotlandiela contraria and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Oriostoma globosum7 sites
- Prosolarium limata5 sites
- Boiotremus longitudinalis4 sites
- Euomphalopterus alatus4 sites
- Morphotropis helicina4 sites
- Poleumita discors4 sites
- Spiroraphe aequilatera4 sites
- Oriostoma angulatum3 sites
- Siluriphorus gotlandicus3 sites
- Acervularia2 sites
- Algae2 sites
- Anthozoa2 sites
- Bucania squamosus2 sites
- Cephalopoda2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus2 sites
- Fistulipora2 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Hystricoceras lundgreni2 sites
- Labechia conferta2 sites
- Linoporella punctata2 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula2 sites
- Orthoceras2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Gotlandiela contraria, 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- The Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland6
- Silurian Reefs of Gotland2
- The oldest members of Porcellioidea (Gastropoda): a new link between Baltica and Perunica1
Each of the 9 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 Gotlandiela contraria 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 Gotlandiela contraria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gotlandiela contraria 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 itGotlandiela through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1884)