Idiospira sulcata
No picture of Idiospira sulcata 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 Idiospira sulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IdiospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.5 Mya and 451.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Idiospira sulcata 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
- Craighead Formation · Ardwell Group1
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The named rock units Idiospira sulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Idiospira sulcata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Idiospira sulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Anoptambonites grayae1 site
- Aulidospira trippi1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Catazyga arcana1 site
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata1 site
- Glossella1 site
- Glyptorthis balclatchiensis1 site
- Hesperorthis craigensis1 site
- Leptaena1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) infrunita1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) ordovicica1 site
- Mjoesina rugata1 site
- Nicolella strasburgensis1 site
- Oxoplecia subborealis1 site
- Pachyglossella1 site
- Paracraniops pararius1 site
- Paucicrura eximia1 site
- Rostricellula lapworthi1 site
- Sulevorthis playfairi1 site
- Trigrammaria cassata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Idiospira sulcata, 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 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Idiospira sulcata 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 Idiospira sulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Idiospira sulcata 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 itIdiospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Williams 1962)