Naticopsis errans
No picture of Naticopsis errans was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Naticopsis errans itself, so it was not used. 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 Naticopsis errans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NaticopsisPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Naticopsidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Naticopsis
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticopsis
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Naticopsis
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Naticopsis
Time the record covers
At most 1.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 425 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Naticopsis errans 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
1 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Naticopsis errans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Naticopsis errans and its relatives
SilurianWhere Naticopsis errans and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Catazone cuneus1 site
- Catazone latona1 site
- Coelocaulus fugitiva1 site
- Cyclonema cancellatum1 site
- Cyclonema karlsteinensis1 site
- Discordichilus normalis1 site
- Drahomira rugata1 site
- Grandostoma caudatum1 site
- Loxonema torquatum1 site
- Naticopsis plena1 site
- Oriostoma dives1 site
- Pleurorima migrans1 site
- Ptychosphaera constricta1 site
- Retipilina knighti1 site
- Ruedemannia subrobusta1 site
- Strophostylus cancellata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Naticopsis errans, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Naticopsis errans was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Naticopsis errans itself, so it was not used.
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 Naticopsis errans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Naticopsis errans 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 itNaticopsis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perner 1903