Kirkospira glacialis
No picture of Kirkospira glacialis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Kirkospira glacialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KirkospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Murchisonioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisonioidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Murchisonioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Kirkospira glacialis 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
3 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 Kirkospira glacialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kirkospira glacialis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Kirkospira glacialis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Coelocaulus karlae3 sites
- Euomphalopterus liratus3 sites
- Beraunia bifrons1 site
- Beraunia bohemica1 site
- Bucanopsis volgulica1 site
- Dentalium hecetaensis1 site
- Hecetastoma gehrelsi1 site
- Kirkospira tongassensis1 site
- Medfracaulus turriformis1 site
- Pachystrophia gotlandicus1 site
- Rhytiodentalium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kirkospira glacialis, 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
2 references- Kirkospira, a new Silurian gastropod from Glacier Bay, southeastern Alaska2
- Silurian Gastropoda from the Alexander terrane, southeast Alaska1
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
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No picture of Kirkospira glacialis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Kirkospira glacialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itKirkospira through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rohr and Blodgett 2001