Holopea transversa

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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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Holopea transversa 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Holopea transversa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Holopea transversa and its relatives
SilurianWhere Holopea transversa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
181 taxa- Alispira5 sites
- Baltisphaeridium5 sites
- Bystrowicrinus5 sites
- Dalejina5 sites
- Distomodus kentuckyensis5 sites
- Ensipora5 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus5 sites
- Hesperorthis5 sites
- Homotrypa5 sites
- Icriodella5 sites
- Leiosphaeridia5 sites
- Lophosphaeridium5 sites
- Mendacella5 sites
- Multisolenia tortuosa5 sites
- Oulodus5 sites
- Panderodus unicostatus5 sites
- Pararaphistoma qualteriata5 sites
- Protatrypa5 sites
- Stegerhynchus5 sites
- Stenopareia5 sites
- Subalveolites5 sites
- Trachysphaeridium5 sites
- Bazaricrinus parvulus4 sites
- Borealis borealis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Holopea transversa, 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 5 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 Holopea transversa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Holopea transversa 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 itHolopea through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1884)