Hormotoma rudis

Not Hormotoma rudis. This is Hormotoma rudis (d'Eichwald, 1860), a relative — both are Murchisoniidae.
via GBIF · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HormotomaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Hormotoma
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hormotoma
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Hormotoma
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 300 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 445.5 Mya.
3 occurrences of Hormotoma rudis 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Hormotoma rudis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hormotoma rudis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hormotoma rudis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Holopea ampullacea2 sites
- Loxoplocus esthona2 sites
- Subulites gigas2 sites
- Allonychia1 site
- Ambonyiopsis aff. orbicularis1 site
- Amoonychima incrassata1 site
- Aulacera1 site
- Batostoma1 site
- Boreadorthis sadewitziensis1 site
- Boucotspira carinifer1 site
- Brachytomaria solida1 site
- Bucania cornu1 site
- Bucania radiata1 site
- Chasmops1 site
- Chasmops extensa1 site
- Chasmops inge1 site
- Chasmops wesenbergensis1 site
- Clathrospira1 site
- Craspedostoma1 site
- Cyclonema lineatum1 site
- Cyclonema rupestre1 site
- Cyrtodonta1 site
- Cyrtospira lineatus1 site
- Cyrtostropha salteri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hormotoma rudis, 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- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Стратиграфія ордовику Придністров’я (Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transnistria) (= Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transdniestria)1
- Gastropods from the Akpotok Island, Hudson Strait1
Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Hormotoma rudis (d'Eichwald, 1860)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHormotoma through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Eichwald 1860)