Mimospira balclatchiensis
No picture of Mimospira balclatchiensis 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 Mimospira balclatchiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MimospiraPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 456.6 Mya and 452.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mimospira balclatchiensis 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
2 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
- Balclatchie Formation · Ardmillan Group1
- Ardwell Farm Formation · Ardwell Group1
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The named rock units Mimospira balclatchiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mimospira balclatchiensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Mimospira balclatchiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Joleaudella transiens2 sites
- Pterotheca girvanensis2 sites
- Sinuites discoides2 sites
- Tetranota carrickensis2 sites
- Actinomena1 site
- Ambonychia1 site
- Bimuria perrugata1 site
- Boucotspira ordovicus1 site
- Carinaropsis gracilis1 site
- Clionychia undata1 site
- Cypricardinia1 site
- Eccyliomphalus balclatchiensis1 site
- Eccyliomphalus macromphalus1 site
- Edmondia1 site
- Glyptomenoides girvanensis1 site
- Goniophora1 site
- Hormotoma striatula1 site
- Leptodesma1 site
- Liospira equilis1 site
- Lophospira ferruginea1 site
- Lophospira perangulata1 site
- Loxonema nitida1 site
- Modiolopsis1 site
- Palaeoschisma girvanense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mimospira balclatchiensis, 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
2 references- Distribution and palaeoecology of Ordovician bivalves and gastropods from Girvan, SW Scotland1
- Descriptions of Gasteropoda, chiefly in Mrs. Robert Gray's collection, from the Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Girvan1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mimospira balclatchiensis 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 Mimospira balclatchiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mimospira balclatchiensis 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 itMimospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Longstaff 1924)