Liospira

Liospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LiospirinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 379 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 375.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 368 occurrencesOrdovician — about 332 of 368 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 33 of 368 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 368 occurrencesDevonian489–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–474 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences474–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–458 Mya — about 13 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 99 occurrences454–450 Mya — about 137 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 61 occurrences447–443 Mya — about 17 occurrences443–439 Mya — about 9 occurrences439–435 Mya — about 11 occurrences435–431 Mya — about 6 occurrences431–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–419 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences416–412 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences412–408 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences396–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–388 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences381–377 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences377–373 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468 Mya379 Mya489 Mya373 Mya

368 occurrences of Liospira 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

368 occurrences

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

113 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.77°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.22°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 38.34°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 37.84°N, 84.46°WLexington Limestone — 37.67°N, 84.94°WLexington Limestone — 37.75°N, 84.77°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.67°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WChaumont — 45.88°N, 76.93°WChaumont — 45.52°N, 73.58°WChaumont — 45.41°N, 75.73°WChaumont — 45.57°N, 74.93°WChaumont — 45.43°N, 75.53°WChaumont — 45.03°N, 74.83°WChaumont — 45.47°N, 74.81°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WKope — 38.87°N, 84.46°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKope — 39.05°N, 84.39°WKope — 39.09°N, 84.50°WLebanon Limestone — 35.45°N, 86.88°WLebanon Limestone — 36.00°N, 86.45°WLebanon Limestone — 35.80°N, 86.12°WLebanon Limestone — 35.47°N, 86.80°WLebanon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WMaquoketa — 42.01°N, 91.64°WMaquoketa — 42.12°N, 90.07°WMaquoketa — 42.50°N, 90.66°WMaquoketa — 43.28°N, 91.37°WMaquoketa — 46.00°N, 94.00°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 43.88°N, 75.49°WBobcaygeon — 44.67°N, 78.80°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon — 45.88°N, 76.93°WBobcaygeon — 45.54°N, 75.29°WMcGregor — 42.73°N, 90.48°WMcGregor — 40.78°N, 87.39°WKangaroo Creek — 41.36°N, 122.68°WKangaroo Creek — 41.41°N, 122.76°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 42.51°N, 89.03°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WClays Ferry — 38.00°N, 84.67°WClays Ferry — 38.31°N, 84.85°WClays Ferry — 38.38°N, 84.30°WClays Ferry — 39.09°N, 84.50°WVäo — 59.42°N, 24.75°EVäo — 59.29°N, 23.39°EBrassfield — 38.79°N, 83.55°WBrassfield — 37.63°N, 84.16°WBrassfield — 39.34°N, 84.12°WBrassfield — 39.71°N, 84.13°WMurfreesboro Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WGlenwood — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGlenwood — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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The named rock units Liospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Liospira and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Liospira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,737 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 280 sites for Liospira, and this reads 240 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

96 references

Each of the 368 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. 84 further references are not listed. 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 Liospira

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Liospira 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897