Visitator extraneus
No picture of Visitator extraneus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Visitator extraneus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Platyceras (Visitator)PBDB
- Diet
- parasitePBDB, for Platyceras
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Platyceras
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, epibiontPBDB, for Platyceras
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Platyceratidae
Time the record covers
At most 1.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 425 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Visitator extraneus 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
1 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Visitator extraneus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Visitator extraneus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Visitator extraneus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Archaeopraga pinnaeformis1 site
- Auriptygma fortior1 site
- Catazone latona1 site
- Cyrtolites inprobus1 site
- Longstaffia grata1 site
- Philoxene perlongus1 site
- Philoxene sodalis1 site
- Pleurorima migrans1 site
- Ptychosphaera constricta1 site
- Turbonitella proligera1 site
- Undicornu productum1 site
- Yochelsonellis orphanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Visitator extraneus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach 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 content0
No picture of Visitator extraneus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Visitator extraneus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Visitator extraneus 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 itPlatyceras (Visitator) through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perner 1911