Salpingostoma

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SalpingostomatinaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At least 105 million years on record.
The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 323.4 Mya.
110 occurrences of Salpingostoma 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
110 occurrences- Ordovician79%
- Silurian13%
- Carboniferous8%
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
52 formations
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group9
- Jupiter Formation · Anticosti Group8
- Väo Formation7
- Garlton Hills Volcanics Formation · Lower Lothian Calciferous Sandstone Measures (Series) Group6
- Chaumont Formation5
- Whitewater Formation4
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The named rock units Salpingostoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Salpingostoma and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Salpingostoma and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
997 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis39 sites
- Cyrtodonta30 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus29 sites
- Cyrtodontula28 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata28 sites
- Clathrospira subconica27 sites
- Lophospira perangulata27 sites
- Liospira vitruvia25 sites
- Vanuxemia25 sites
- Eunema centralis24 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta24 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata24 sites
- Orthodesma22 sites
- Ctenodonta21 sites
- Liospira americana21 sites
- Modiolopsis21 sites
- Ambonychiopsis20 sites
- Clathrospira conica20 sites
- Similodonta20 sites
- Lophospira serrulata19 sites
- Scalites peracutum19 sites
- Cleionychia18 sites
- Cyclonema textilis18 sites
- Liospira angustata18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Salpingostoma, 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
26 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota28
- Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland10
- Anticosti Island, Québec9
- Koken and Perner, 19258
- A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 1. Floristics and the development of whole-plant concepts7
- Stratigrafia viruskoy i kharjuskoy seriy (ordovik) Sevemoy Estonii. [Stratigraphy of the Viruan and Harjuan Series (Ordovician) in North Estonia]6
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario6
- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec6
- Middle and Upper Ordovician symmetrical univalved mollusks (Monoplacophora and Bellerophontina) of the Cincinnati Arch region5
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)4
- Geology of Anticosti Island3
- Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe2
Each of the 110 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Salpingostoma
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- iDigBio
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Salpingostoma 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 itSalpingostomatinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roemer 1876)