Helicotoma superba
No picture of Helicotoma superba 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 Helicotoma superba, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelicotomaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Helicotoma
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Helicotoma
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Helicotoma
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Helicotoma superba 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Helicotoma superba has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Helicotoma superba and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Helicotoma superba and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Cataschisma nitida1 site
- Cyclonema rupestre1 site
- Dawsonoceras fenestratum1 site
- Drabovia minuta1 site
- Ectomaria nieszkowskii1 site
- Eocryptaenia singularis1 site
- Eriditidae1 site
- Graciloceratidae1 site
- Holopea filosus1 site
- Hormotoma meyendorfi1 site
- Mendacella aerinensis1 site
- Oncoceratidae1 site
- Orthoceratidae1 site
- Palaeomphalus obtusangulus1 site
- Parvihebetoceras wahli1 site
- Piersaloceras gageli1 site
- Pojetaconcha pygmaea1 site
- Pomerantsoceras tibia1 site
- Porkunioceras tuba1 site
- Pseudosphaerexochus roemeri1 site
- Ruedemannia borkholmiensis1 site
- Ruedemannia lirata1 site
- Ruedemannia tolli1 site
- Schmidtomena acuteplicata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Helicotoma superba, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Helicotoma superba 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 Helicotoma superba, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helicotoma superba 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 itHelicotoma through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koken 1897