Peruniscus macer
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeruniscusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Peruniscus macer 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
5 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
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The named rock units Peruniscus macer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Peruniscus macer and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Peruniscus macer and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Ceratopea canadensis3 sites
- Ribeiria calcifera3 sites
- Archinacella simplex2 sites
- Bridgeites disjuncta2 sites
- Eotomaria2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Hormotoma2 sites
- Lophonema2 sites
- Lophonema taneyensis2 sites
- Lophospira2 sites
- Turritoma acrea2 sites
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Ceratoleperditia1 site
- Ceratopea1 site
- Ceratopea buttsi1 site
- Ceratopea unguis1 site
- Donaldiella cicelia1 site
- Ectomaria adventa1 site
- Eoleperditia1 site
- Eopteria1 site
- Eopteria richardsoni1 site
- Lophonema circumlirata1 site
- Lophospiridae1 site
- Plethospira cassina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Peruniscus macer, 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- Taphonomy and taxonomy of the early Ordovician gastropod Ceratopea canadensis (Billings), 18653
- The Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Smithville and Blackrock Formations of Southeastern Missouri2
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Peruniscus macer was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Peruniscus macer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPeruniscus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)