Maclurites

Maclurites

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
MacluritidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 322 occurrencesOrdovician — about 322 of 322 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 322 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 2 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 3 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 3 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 3 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 4 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 7 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 8 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 8 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 11 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 13 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 11 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 10 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 9 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 9 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 9 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 15 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 16 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 21 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 23 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 22 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 22 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 43 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 18 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 10 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 10 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 5 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences477.1 Mya445.2 Mya489.8 Mya442.2 Mya

322 occurrences of Maclurites 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

322 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

109 formations

Crown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WCrown Point — 44.63°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 44.87°N, 73.33°WCrown Point — 44.94°N, 73.45°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WCrown Point — 44.24°N, 73.28°WAntelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WAntelope Valley — 36.78°N, 115.89°WAntelope Valley — 39.19°N, 116.38°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.66°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 37.12°N, 116.50°WAntelope Valley — 36.29°N, 116.98°WAntelope Valley — 36.39°N, 116.96°WAntelope Valley — 36.93°N, 117.16°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.26°N, 82.79°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.33°N, 81.78°WBad Cache Rapids — 66.92°N, 83.92°WBad Cache Rapids — 66.85°N, 83.83°WBad Cache Rapids — 66.78°N, 83.90°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.90°N, 82.03°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.71°N, 81.94°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.48°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.75°N, 81.63°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.34°N, 82.37°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.38°N, 82.31°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.86°N, 82.35°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.25°WAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WAmadjuak — 65.25°N, 73.17°WAmadjuak — 66.00°N, 69.83°WAmadjuak — 68.80°N, 81.24°WAmadjuak — 66.75°N, 72.94°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.02°N, 81.63°WBenbolt — 37.22°N, 81.36°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.10°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.32°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WKangaroo Creek — 41.38°N, 122.65°WCatoche — 48.55°N, 59.25°WCatoche — 48.51°N, 59.22°WCatoche — 50.72°N, 57.37°WCatoche — 48.54°N, 58.74°WCatoche — 50.88°N, 57.13°WCatoche — 50.74°N, 57.22°WCatoche — 50.76°N, 57.22°WCatoche — 50.37°N, 57.53°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.65°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.67°WFarr — 47.42°N, 79.60°WFarr — 47.42°N, 79.48°WCashions Creek — 42.58°S, 146.50°ECashions Creek — 42.73°S, 146.63°ECashions Creek — 42.54°S, 146.45°ESan Juan — 32.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 32.05°S, 68.62°WDubuque — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WXia Majiagou — 40.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 39.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 39.00°N, 115.00°EXia Majiagou — 36.00°N, 114.00°ETsjebysjovfjellet Limestones — 76.88°N, 16.12°ETsjebysjovfjellet Limestones — 76.82°N, 16.01°ETsjebysjovfjellet Limestones — 76.81°N, 16.22°EDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WLebanon — 35.47°N, 86.80°WLebanon — 35.81°N, 86.13°WLebanon — 35.81°N, 86.18°WLebanon — 36.01°N, 86.42°WPortage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.00°WPortage Chute — 56.50°N, 94.25°WPortage Chute — 58.50°N, 95.00°WShan Majiagou — 39.00°N, 115.00°EShan Majiagou — 38.00°N, 113.00°EShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 114.00°EShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 113.00°ECliffield — 37.10°N, 81.34°WCliffield — 37.15°N, 81.49°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WValcour — 44.89°N, 73.44°WValcour — 44.61°N, 73.41°WBaota — 29.00°N, 110.00°EBaota — 32.00°N, 118.00°EStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WLianjiashan — 40.00°N, 118.00°ELianjiashan — 39.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 39.00°N, 118.00°E

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The named rock units Maclurites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 85 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Maclurites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Maclurites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 281 sites for Maclurites, 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

102 references

Each of the 322 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. 90 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 content2

Picture of Maclurites

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itMacluritidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Le Sueur 1818)