Subulites

Subulites is a genus of fossil sea snails, mud-dwelling marine gastropod mollusks known from the early-middle Ordovician, apparently allied with the Caenogastropoda. They can be identified by their two whorls.

Subulites

Tiit Hunt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SubulitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 211 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 168 occurrencesOrdovician — about 146 of 168 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 14 of 168 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 168 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 168 occurrencesPermian — about 5 of 168 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 168 occurrences492–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–459 Mya — about 9 occurrences459–451 Mya — about 76 occurrences451–443 Mya — about 57 occurrences443–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–427 Mya — about 4 occurrences427–419 Mya — about 6 occurrences419–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–379 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences290–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences282–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–266 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences266–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences471.3 Mya259.857 Mya492 Mya249 Mya

168 occurrences of Subulites 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

168 occurrences

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

71 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WEllis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WEllis Bay — 49.74°N, 63.84°WLebanon Limestone — 35.80°N, 86.13°WLebanon Limestone — 35.45°N, 86.88°WLebanon Limestone — 36.00°N, 86.45°WLebanon Limestone — 35.47°N, 86.80°WLebanon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WGlenwood — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGlenwood — 42.00°N, 90.50°WVäo — 59.42°N, 24.75°EGratton Limestone — 37.22°N, 81.36°WGratton Limestone — 37.00°N, 81.00°WGratton Limestone — 37.10°N, 81.62°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WChaumont — 45.88°N, 76.93°WChaumont — 45.41°N, 75.73°WChaumont — 45.43°N, 75.53°WChaumont — 45.03°N, 74.83°WLowville — 45.42°N, 75.70°WLowville — 45.45°N, 75.59°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon — 45.54°N, 75.29°WAdila — 59.05°N, 24.03°EAdila — 58.88°N, 22.95°EAdila — 58.86°N, 24.08°EAdila — 58.74°N, 24.08°EKõrgessaare — 59.02°N, 23.14°EKõrgessaare — 59.00°N, 22.77°EKõrgessaare — 59.08°N, 23.61°EVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.53°N, 78.98°WVerulam — 44.55°N, 78.75°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWitten Limestone — 37.20°N, 81.36°WWitten Limestone — 37.11°N, 81.52°WWitten Limestone — 37.02°N, 81.63°WSaunja — 59.14°N, 24.35°ESaunja — 59.13°N, 24.47°ESaunja — 59.21°N, 25.10°EHermitage — 35.80°N, 86.12°WCarters Limestone — 35.80°N, 86.12°WCarters Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLoray — 39.21°N, 114.97°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.32°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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The named rock units Subulites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Subulites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Subulites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,527 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 130 sites for Subulites, 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

48 references

Each of the 168 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. 36 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 Subulites

Credit
Tiit Hunt
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Subulites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Emmons 1842