Paraliospira mundula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaliospiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 700 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
9 occurrences of Paraliospira mundula 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
9 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Paraliospira mundula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraliospira mundula and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paraliospira mundula and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
151 taxa- Ectomaria callahanensis5 sites
- Liospira modesta5 sites
- Lophospira perangulata5 sites
- Helicotoma griffinorum3 sites
- Linsleyella johnsoni3 sites
- Lophospira milleri3 sites
- Pachystrophia devexa3 sites
- Paraliospira helena3 sites
- Ctenodonta2 sites
- Daidia cerithioides2 sites
- Donaldiella derwiduii2 sites
- Ectomaria prisca2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Hormotoma2 sites
- Linsleyella greggi2 sites
- Maclurites2 sites
- Megalomphala contorta2 sites
- Paraliospira angulata2 sites
- Paraliospira gradata2 sites
- Straparollina circe2 sites
- Trochonema2 sites
- Trochonemella reusingi2 sites
- Actinoceras1 site
- Alaskadiscus subacutus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Paraliospira mundula, 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
4 references- Ordovician - Devonian Gastropoda from the Klamath Mountains, California5
- The Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the York Mountains, western Seward Peninsula, Alaska2
- The Upper Ordovician fauna of Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island1
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota1
Each of the 9 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 Paraliospira mundula 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 Paraliospira mundula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraliospira mundula 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 itParaliospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)