Tubospirina tubicina

No picture of Tubospirina tubicina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tubospirina tubicina itself, so it was not used. 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 Tubospirina tubicina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TubospirinaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Naticopsidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Naticopsidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Naticopsidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Naticopsidae

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 5 occurrencesSilurian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 5 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440.5 Mya422.7 Mya443.6 Mya419.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Tubospirina tubicina 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

5 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

3 formations

Pozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 50.20°N, 12.48°ELitenschichten — 50.05°N, 14.37°E

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The named rock units Tubospirina tubicina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tubospirina tubicina and its relatives

Silurian

Where Tubospirina tubicina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tubospirina tubicina, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Tubospirina tubicina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tubospirina tubicina itself, so it was not used.

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 Tubospirina tubicina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tubospirina tubicina 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 itTubospirina through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perner 1903)