Paupospira viator
No picture of Paupospira viator was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 viator, 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 2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 459.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Paupospira viator 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Paupospira viator has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paupospira viator and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paupospira viator and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Ribeiria apusoides2 sites
- Sinuitopsis neglecta2 sites
- Sinuitopsis nodosa2 sites
- Aristocystites bohemicus1 site
- Barrandicella tarda1 site
- Bucanopsis comata1 site
- Homocystites alter1 site
- Marekicella podexpulicis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paupospira viator, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paupospira viator was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 viator, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paupospira viator 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. (Perner 1907)