Maclurites oceana
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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 most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Maclurites oceana 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
- Catoche Formation · St. George Group3
- Boat Harbour Formation · St. George Group1
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The named rock units Maclurites oceana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Maclurites oceana and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Maclurites oceana and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Ceratopea numeria3 sites
- Euchasma blumenbachi3 sites
- Calathium2 sites
- Cassinoceras wortheni2 sites
- Ceratopea canadensis2 sites
- Euconia etna2 sites
- Jeffersonia timon2 sites
- Malayaspira bella2 sites
- Protocycloceras lamarcki2 sites
- Archaeoscyphia minganensis1 site
- Benthamaspis1 site
- Bolbocephalus convexus1 site
- Centrotarphyceras1 site
- Ceratopea buttsi1 site
- Clathrospira virguncula1 site
- Ectomaria adelina1 site
- Eroicaspira simulatrix1 site
- Hormotoma agilis1 site
- Ischyrotoma anataphra1 site
- Jeffersonia1 site
- Jeffersonia jenni1 site
- Litoceras calciferum1 site
- Lophospira perangulata1 site
- Lophospira selecta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Maclurites oceana, 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- Palaeozoic fossils, volume 12
- The rostroconch mollusc Euchasma Billings, 1865 from the Lower Ordovician Catoche Formation, western Newfoundland1
- The upper St. George Group, western Port au Port Penensula: lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, depositional environments and regional implications1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Maclurites oceana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 oceana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Maclurites oceana 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 itMaclurites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)