Teiichispira ponderosa
No picture of Teiichispira ponderosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Teiichispira ponderosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TeiichispiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Teiichispira
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Teiichispira
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Teiichispira
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 470.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Teiichispira ponderosa 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
12 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
- Smithville Formation11
- Shallow Bay Formation · Cow Head Group1
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The named rock units Teiichispira ponderosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Teiichispira ponderosa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Teiichispira ponderosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Ceratopea unguis11 sites
- Lophonema11 sites
- Lophonema taneyensis10 sites
- Cephalopoda8 sites
- Lophonema circumlirata8 sites
- Lophospira perangulata8 sites
- Eoleperditia7 sites
- Hormotoma artemesia7 sites
- Lophospira7 sites
- Straparollina cassina7 sites
- Fusispira obesus6 sites
- Hormotoma6 sites
- Turritoma acrea6 sites
- Ceratopea5 sites
- Ceratopea depressa5 sites
- Eopteria richardsoni5 sites
- Hormotoma confusa5 sites
- Ceratoleperditia4 sites
- Clathrospira4 sites
- Clathrospira virguncula4 sites
- Ectomaria adventa4 sites
- Gastropoda4 sites
- Hormotoma anna4 sites
- Acidiphorus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Teiichispira ponderosa, 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 Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Smithville and Blackrock Formations of Southeastern Missouri11
- Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian) gastropods of western Newfoundland: Macluritoidea and Euomphaloidea1
Each of the 12 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 Teiichispira ponderosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Teiichispira ponderosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Teiichispira ponderosa 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTeiichispira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)