Morphotropis helicina

No picture of Morphotropis helicina 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 Morphotropis helicina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MorphotropisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Morphotropis
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Morphotropis
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Morphotropis
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesSilurian439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439.1 Mya426.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Morphotropis helicina on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

5 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

4 formations

Lower Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EHogklint — 57.50°N, 18.55°EBrinkmarsh Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WSlite Beds — 57.75°N, 18.73°E

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The named rock units Morphotropis helicina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Morphotropis helicina and its relatives

Silurian

Where Morphotropis helicina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

63 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Morphotropis helicina, 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

Each of the 5 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 Morphotropis helicina 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 Morphotropis helicina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Morphotropis helicina 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 itMorphotropis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1884)