Hormotoma simplex
No picture of Hormotoma simplex 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 Hormotoma simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 6.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.
10 occurrences of Hormotoma simplex 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
10 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
5 formations
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group4
- Bobcaygeon Formation · Simcoe Group2
- Lindsay Formation · Simcoe Group2
- Chaumont Formation1
- Crown Point Formation · Chazy Group1
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The named rock units Hormotoma simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hormotoma simplex and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hormotoma simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
358 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis9 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus9 sites
- Cyrtostropha salteri8 sites
- Lophospira perangulata8 sites
- Paucicrura rogata8 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sericea8 sites
- Sowerbyella curdsvillensis8 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra7 sites
- Ceraurus pleurexanthemus7 sites
- Conularia7 sites
- Omospira trentonensis7 sites
- Rafinesquina7 sites
- Rhynchotrema increbescens7 sites
- Sowerbyella subovalis7 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata7 sites
- Eroicaspira bellicincta6 sites
- Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) senaria6 sites
- Isotelus gigas6 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata alata6 sites
- Bathyurus (Raymondites) ingalli5 sites
- Dinorthis pectinella5 sites
- Gabriceraurus dentatus5 sites
- Hesperorthis tricenaria5 sites
- Liospira micula5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Hormotoma simplex, 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- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario8
- Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland1
- The Chazy Formation and its fauna1
Each of the 10 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Hormotoma simplex 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 Hormotoma simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hormotoma simplex 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.
Keep going
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. Wilson 1932