Lophospira ferruginea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LophospiraPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Lophospira
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lophospira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lophospira
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 600 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 456.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 452.5 Mya.
2 occurrences of Lophospira ferruginea 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
2 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
2 formations
- Balclatchie Formation · Ardwell Group1
- Ardwell Farm Formation · Ardwell Group1
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The named rock units Lophospira ferruginea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lophospira ferruginea and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lophospira ferruginea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Pterotheca girvanensis2 sites
- Sinuites discoides2 sites
- Strangulites maccallumi2 sites
- Tetranota carrickensis2 sites
- Ambonychia1 site
- Boucotspira ordovicus1 site
- Carinaropsis gracilis1 site
- Clathrospira trochiformis1 site
- Clionychia undata1 site
- Cypricardinia1 site
- Edmondia1 site
- Girvanolithes subexcavatus1 site
- Goniophora1 site
- Hyolithes immemor1 site
- Hyolithes multipunctatus1 site
- Joleaudella transiens1 site
- Leolites ardmillanensis1 site
- Leptodesma1 site
- Mimospira balclatchiensis1 site
- Modiolopsis1 site
- Palaeoschisma girvanense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lophospira ferruginea, 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- Distribution and palaeoecology of Ordovician bivalves and gastropods from Girvan, SW Scotland1
- On some of the Proterozoic Gasteropoda which have been referred to Murchisonia and Pleurotomaria, with descriptions of new subgenera and species1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Lophospira ferruginea 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 Lophospira ferruginea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lophospira ferruginea 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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What may have been alongside itLophospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Donald 1906