Multispinula cuneata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MultispinulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 449.6 Mya.
2 occurrences of Multispinula cuneata 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
- Edinburg Formation1
- Confinis Formation · Barr Group1
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The named rock units Multispinula cuneata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Multispinula cuneata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Multispinula cuneata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Dactylogonia2 sites
- Laticrura pionodema2 sites
- Phragmorthis buttsi2 sites
- Ptychoglyptus virginiensis2 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus2 sites
- Amphilichas1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Bartoninus dispersus1 site
- Bimuria buttsi1 site
- Bimuria superba1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Christiania subquadrata1 site
- Colaptomena macallumi1 site
- Conotreta cuspidata1 site
- Conotreta plana1 site
- Cooperea immatura1 site
- Cybeloides1 site
- Cyrtonotella grandistriata1 site
- Cyrtonotella subfissicosta1 site
- Elliptoglossa ovalis1 site
- Elliptoglossa rotundata1 site
- Eridorthis inexpecta1 site
- Famatinorthis ponderosus1 site
- Gacella ponderosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Multispinula cuneata, 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- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda1
- Chazyan and related brachiopods1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Multispinula cuneata 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 Multispinula cuneata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Multispinula cuneata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itMultispinula through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Willard 1928)