Lophospira perangulata

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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 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.4 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
165 occurrences of Lophospira perangulata 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
165 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
66 formations
- Smithville Formation19
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group11
- Cliffield Formation9
- Lexington Limestone Formation9
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group8
- Majiagou Formation7
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The named rock units Lophospira perangulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.
Lophospira perangulata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lophospira perangulata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
1,088 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis38 sites
- Cyrtodonta31 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata30 sites
- Ctenodonta27 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus26 sites
- Eunema centralis25 sites
- Clathrospira subconica24 sites
- Cyrtodontula24 sites
- Cyrtostropha salteri24 sites
- Vanuxemia24 sites
- Lophospira milleri23 sites
- Lophospira serrulata23 sites
- Cymatonota22 sites
- Modiolopsis22 sites
- Liospira vitruvia21 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata21 sites
- Liospira progne20 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta20 sites
- Alaskadiscus subacutus19 sites
- Cyrtolites retrorsus18 sites
- Liospira americana18 sites
- Lophospira ventricosa18 sites
- Bucania sublata17 sites
- Clathrospira conica17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 135 sites for Lophospira perangulata, 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
43 references- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)27
- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota25
- Phylogenetic analysis of the Lophospiridae (Gastropoda : Pleurotomariina) of the Ordovician and Silurian14
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario11
- The Chazy Formation and its fauna8
- Ordovician - Devonian Gastropoda from the Klamath Mountains, California6
- The Canadian and Ordovician formations and fossils of South Manchuria6
- Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia5
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota5
- The utility of fossil data in phylogenetic analyses: a likelihood example using Ordovician-Silurian species of the Lophospiridae (Gastropoda: Murchisoniina)4
- Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland4
- Ordovician Gastropoda from Northeast Greenland3
Each of the 165 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. 31 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 Lophospira perangulata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itLophospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1847)