Subulites

Searched as Subulites (Subulites) revalensis revalensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Subulites as the accepted name.

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 most 1.7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461.4 Mya and 459.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence 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

1 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

1 formation

Väo — 59.42°N, 24.75°E

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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.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

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 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itSubulitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

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