Holopea praecursor
No picture of Holopea praecursor 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 Holopea praecursor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HolopeaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461.4 Mya and 458 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Holopea praecursor 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
2 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 Holopea praecursor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Holopea praecursor and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Holopea praecursor and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Asgardaspira norvegica2 sites
- Pararaphistoma schmidti2 sites
- Sinuites corpulentus2 sites
- Sinuites niger2 sites
- Archinacella norwegica1 site
- Baltiscanella christianiae1 site
- Deacheospira elliptica1 site
- Haplospira henningsmoeni1 site
- Joleaudella sphenonotus1 site
- Kokenospira insularis1 site
- Pygmaeoconus conoideus1 site
- Straparollina norvegicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Holopea praecursor, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 2 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 Holopea praecursor 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 Holopea praecursor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Holopea praecursor 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 itHolopea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken and Perner 1925)