Philoxene mopsus
No picture of Philoxene mopsus 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 Philoxene mopsus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Straparollus (Philoxene)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Straparollus (Philoxene)
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Straparollus (Philoxene)
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Straparollus (Philoxene)
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Philoxene mopsus 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Philoxene mopsus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Philoxene mopsus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Philoxene mopsus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
175 taxa- Dicranopeltis4 sites
- Phanerotrema occidens4 sites
- Prosolarium halei4 sites
- Tremanotus angustata4 sites
- <Calymenid>3 sites
- <Favositid>3 sites
- <Halysitid>3 sites
- <Heliolitid>3 sites
- Actinopteria3 sites
- Amphicoelia leidyi3 sites
- Amphicyrtoceras3 sites
- Anastrophia3 sites
- Antirhynchonella3 sites
- Arctinurus3 sites
- Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda3 sites
- Bryozoa3 sites
- Caryocrinites3 sites
- Cheirurus niagarensis3 sites
- Cypricardinia3 sites
- Cyrtorizoceras3 sites
- Dalejina3 sites
- Dalmanites3 sites
- Dawsonoceras3 sites
- Dicoelosia biloba3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Philoxene mopsus, 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- The Silurian (Wenlockian) reef fauna of Southeastern Wisconsin3
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
Each of the 4 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 Philoxene mopsus 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 Philoxene mopsus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Philoxene mopsus 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 itStraparollus (Philoxene) through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1868)