Lophospira ventricosa
No picture of Lophospira ventricosa 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 ventricosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 3.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
23 occurrences of Lophospira ventricosa 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
23 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
16 formations
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group4
- Platteville Formation · Black River Group2
- Quimbys Mill Formation2
- McGregor Formation · Platteville Group2
- Hull Formation2
- Decorah Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Lophospira ventricosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lophospira ventricosa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lophospira ventricosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
302 taxa- Lophospira serrulata19 sites
- Lophospira perangulata18 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis17 sites
- Eunema helicteres14 sites
- Clathrospira subconica13 sites
- Eunema centralis12 sites
- Helicotoma planulata11 sites
- Paraliospira supracingulata11 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata11 sites
- Holopea ampla10 sites
- Holopea rotunda10 sites
- Lesueurilla beloitensis10 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata10 sites
- Bucania halli9 sites
- Lytospira undulatus9 sites
- Ophiletina sublaxa9 sites
- Phragmolites triangularis9 sites
- Tetranota macra9 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta9 sites
- Tetranota wisconsinensis9 sites
- Tryblidium exserta9 sites
- Ctenodonta8 sites
- Cyrtodonta8 sites
- Eotomaria dryope8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Lophospira ventricosa, 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
7 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota8
- Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland5
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario4
- Paleontology of the disturbed Ordovician rocks near Kentland, Indiana2
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota2
- Late Ordovician benthic communities in north-central New York1
- Central Appalachian Late Ordovician communities1
Each of the 23 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
Media content0
No picture of Lophospira ventricosa 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 ventricosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lophospira ventricosa 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.
Keep going
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)