Maclurites borealis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacluritesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Maclurites
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Maclurites
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Maclurites
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 600 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Maclurites borealis 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
4 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
2 formations
- Amadjuak Formation2
- Irene Bay Formation · Cornwallis Group1
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The named rock units Maclurites borealis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Maclurites borealis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Maclurites borealis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Calapoecia2 sites
- Calapoecia anticostiensis2 sites
- Cyrtogomphoceras2 sites
- Endoceras2 sites
- Halysites catenularia2 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Hormotoma2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Maclurites altus2 sites
- Receptaculites2 sites
- Streptelasma arcticum2 sites
- Trochonema coxi2 sites
- <Orthocerartoid>1 site
- Actinoceras1 site
- Archinacella1 site
- Armenoceras1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Bumastus1 site
- Calapoecia coxi1 site
- Catenipora agglomeratiformis1 site
- Catenipora delicatulus1 site
- Catenipora gracilis1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Charactoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Maclurites borealis, 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
3 references- Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island2
- Cornwallis and Little Cornwallis Islands, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories1
- Notes on the Baffinland fossils collected by J. Dewey Soper during 1925 and 19291
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Maclurites borealis 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 Maclurites borealis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Maclurites borealis 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 itMaclurites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1938