Lophospiridae

Lophospiridae is an extinct taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs.

Lophospiridae

Tiit Hunt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 315 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 1667 occurrencesOrdovician — about 1343 of 1667 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 121 of 1667 occurrencesDevonian — about 42 of 1667 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 23 of 1667 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 131 of 1667 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1667 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 1667 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 1667 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1667 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1667 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 1667 occurrences493–482 Mya — about 6 occurrences482–470 Mya — about 73 occurrences470–459 Mya — about 138 occurrences459–447 Mya — about 995 occurrences447–436 Mya — about 176 occurrences436–424 Mya — about 61 occurrences424–413 Mya — about 22 occurrences413–401 Mya — about 17 occurrences401–390 Mya — about 6 occurrences390–378 Mya — about 10 occurrences378–367 Mya — about 1 occurrence367–355 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences355–344 Mya — about 1 occurrence344–332 Mya — about 5 occurrences332–321 Mya — about 14 occurrences321–309 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences309–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–286 Mya — about 11 occurrences286–275 Mya — about 45 occurrences275–263 Mya — about 65 occurrences263–252 Mya — about 10 occurrences240–229 Mya — about 6 occurrences171–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences477.1 Mya161.5 Mya493 Mya148 Mya

1,667 occurrences of Lophospiridae 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

1,667 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

339 formations

Dunleith — 42.02°N, 93.45°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDunleith — 42.42°N, 90.43°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 — 37.94°N, 84.14°WLexington Limestone — 37.90°N, 84.27°WLexington Limestone — 38.35°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 37.84°N, 84.59°WLexington Limestone — 37.84°N, 84.46°WLexington Limestone — 37.99°N, 84.45°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.61°WLexington Limestone — 37.69°N, 84.76°WLexington Limestone — 37.67°N, 84.94°WLexington Limestone — 38.35°N, 84.31°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 37.85°N, 84.51°WLexington Limestone — 37.75°N, 84.77°WSmithville — 37.33°N, 89.90°WSmithville — 37.30°N, 89.96°WSmithville — 37.41°N, 89.87°WSmithville — 37.35°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.35°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.21°N, 89.85°WSmithville — 37.16°N, 89.81°WSmithville — 37.20°N, 89.75°WCliffield — 37.15°N, 81.49°WCliffield — 37.13°N, 81.41°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.33°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WCliffield — 37.17°N, 81.48°WCliffield — 37.06°N, 81.76°WCliffield — 37.10°N, 81.56°WCliffield — 37.00°N, 81.00°WCliffield — 37.02°N, 81.63°WKangaroo Creek — 41.36°N, 122.68°WKangaroo Creek — 41.42°N, 122.77°WMartinsburg — 36.95°N, 81.08°WMartinsburg — 38.93°N, 78.20°WMartinsburg — 38.51°N, 78.63°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WMartinsburg — 37.38°N, 80.86°WMartinsburg — 36.90°N, 81.53°WMartinsburg — 37.35°N, 80.81°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WChaumont — 45.88°N, 76.93°WChaumont — 45.52°N, 73.58°WChaumont — 45.41°N, 75.73°WChaumont — 45.62°N, 74.69°WChaumont — 45.33°N, 75.72°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WVerulam — 44.02°N, 77.15°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 79.17°WMaJiaGou — 42.00°N, 126.00°EMaJiaGou — 39.42°N, 121.75°EMaJiaGou — 39.67°N, 118.25°EMaJiaGou — 41.36°N, 123.39°EBobcaygeon — 44.67°N, 78.80°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon — 44.50°N, 79.20°WBobcaygeon — 44.60°N, 79.00°WBobcaygeon — 45.88°N, 76.93°WBobcaygeon — 45.54°N, 75.29°WMcGregor — 42.73°N, 90.48°WMcGregor — 42.51°N, 89.03°WMcGregor — 42.00°N, 89.39°WMcGregor — 42.81°N, 89.64°WMcGregor — 40.78°N, 87.39°WPlatteville — 43.00°N, 91.16°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 43.30°N, 91.78°WPlatteville — 42.51°N, 89.03°WKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.39°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.10°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°EKopanina — 49.94°N, 14.19°EClays Ferry — 38.00°N, 84.67°WClays Ferry — 38.31°N, 84.85°WClays Ferry — 37.88°N, 84.34°WClays Ferry — 37.65°N, 85.07°WClays Ferry — 38.36°N, 84.36°WClays Ferry — 38.38°N, 84.30°WClays Ferry — 38.33°N, 84.31°WClays Ferry — 39.09°N, 84.50°WKope — 38.87°N, 84.46°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKope — 38.80°N, 84.16°WKope — 39.01°N, 84.53°WKope — 38.43°N, 83.99°WKope — 39.09°N, 84.50°WWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WWhitewater — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWhitewater — 38.60°N, 85.28°WWhitewater — 39.49°N, 84.95°WWhitewater — 39.34°N, 84.95°WWhitewater — 39.48°N, 84.06°WWhitewater — 39.39°N, 83.93°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.22°WBellevue — 38.87°N, 84.46°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBellevue — 38.67°N, 83.80°WBellevue — 39.03°N, 84.51°WBellevue — 39.30°N, 84.40°WCatheys — 36.35°N, 85.79°WCatheys — 35.62°N, 87.10°WCatheys — 35.50°N, 86.50°WCatheys — 36.29°N, 85.99°WCatheys — 35.17°N, 87.04°WCatheys — 36.37°N, 85.64°WBigby-Cannon Limestone — 36.29°N, 86.00°WBigby-Cannon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDecorah Shale — 44.50°N, 92.90°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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The named rock units Lophospiridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 315 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 113 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lophospiridae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Lophospiridae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,032 sites for Lophospiridae, 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

249 references

Each of the 1,667 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. 237 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 Lophospiridae

Credit
Tiit Hunt
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lophospiridae 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.

The description on this site

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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. Wenz 1938