Paupospira circe
No picture of Paupospira circe 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 Paupospira circe, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaupospiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paupospira circe 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Paupospira circe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paupospira circe and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paupospira circe and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Clathrospira subconica3 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis3 sites
- Liospira americana3 sites
- Sinuites bilobatus3 sites
- Arjamannia sybellina2 sites
- Brachytomaria papillosa2 sites
- Cyclonema thalia2 sites
- Lytospira nitida2 sites
- Paupospira moorei2 sites
- Alaskadiscus giganteus1 site
- Alaskadiscus tenuis1 site
- Archinacella estella1 site
- Bellerophon fraternus1 site
- Cyrtospira notata1 site
- Ischyrinia winchelli1 site
- Lophospira modesta1 site
- Loxobucania ellisensis1 site
- Metoptoma alceste1 site
- Myocaris plicata1 site
- Paupospira manitouliensis1 site
- Paupospira tropidophora1 site
- Phragmolites pannosus1 site
- Pterotheca anticostiana1 site
- Salpingostoma canadensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paupospira circe, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 Paupospira circe 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 Paupospira circe, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paupospira circe 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 itPaupospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1857)