Maclurina bigsbyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MaclurinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Maclurina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Maclurina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Maclurina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Maclurina bigsbyi 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
22 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
11 formations
- Witten Limestone Formation10
- Platteville Formation2
- Quimbys Mill Formation · Platteville Group2
- Carters Limestone Formation1
- Decorah Shale Formation1
- Pecatonica Formation1
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The named rock units Maclurina bigsbyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Maclurina bigsbyi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Maclurina bigsbyi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
146 taxa- Trochonema umbilicata12 sites
- Tetradium11 sites
- Calyptaulax10 sites
- Clathrospira subconica10 sites
- Orthoceras10 sites
- Paraliospira supracingulata10 sites
- Eunema centralis9 sites
- Holopea ampla9 sites
- Holopea rotunda9 sites
- Lesueurilla beloitensis9 sites
- Ophiletina sublaxa9 sites
- Salpingostoma buelli9 sites
- Sinuites rectangularis9 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata9 sites
- Tetranota wisconsinensis9 sites
- Eunema helicteres8 sites
- Fusispira spicula8 sites
- Helicotoma planulata8 sites
- Holopea concinnula8 sites
- Holopea insignis8 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis8 sites
- Lophospira decursa8 sites
- Lophospira perangulata8 sites
- Lophospira serrulata8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Maclurina bigsbyi, 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
5 references- Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia10
- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota8
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota2
- Life association of shell and operculum of Middle Ordovician gastropod Maclurites1
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee1
Each of the 22 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 Maclurina bigsbyi 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 Maclurina bigsbyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Maclurina bigsbyi 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.
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What may have been alongside itMaclurina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1861)