Anthracospirifer occiduus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnthracospiriferPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 312.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
55 occurrences of Anthracospirifer occiduus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
55 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
17 formations
- Garcia Formation · Armendaris Group8
- Cherokee Shale Formation6
- Whiskey Canyon Limestone Formation · Armendaris Group6
- Watahomigi Formation · Supai Group6
- Apodaca Formation · Green Canyon Group3
- Arrey Formation · Green Canyon Group3
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The named rock units Anthracospirifer occiduus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anthracospirifer occiduus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Anthracospirifer occiduus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
262 taxa- Linoproductus20 sites
- Composita subtilita19 sites
- Composita ovata16 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa11 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari11 sites
- Composita9 sites
- Marginifera9 sites
- Derbyia8 sites
- Dictyoclostus8 sites
- Neospirifer8 sites
- Derbyia crassa7 sites
- Millerella7 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina6 sites
- Juresania6 sites
- Rhipidomella carbonaria6 sites
- Antiquatonia5 sites
- Chonetes5 sites
- Echinoconchus5 sites
- Linoproductus prattenianus5 sites
- Orbiculoidea capuliformis5 sites
- Rhipidomella5 sites
- Cleiothyridina orbicularis4 sites
- Neospirifer cameratus4 sites
- Orthotetes4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Anthracospirifer occiduus, 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
12 references- Middle Pennsylvanian Brachiopods From the Mud Springs Mountains and Derry Hills, New Mexico28
- The Supai Group of the Grand Canyon6
- Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas6
- Preliminary report of the brachiopod fauna, Arrow Canyon section, southern Nevada, U.S.A.3
- Silicified Carboniferous (Chesterian) Brachiopoda of the Arco Hills Formation, Idaho2
- Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Amsden Formation (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian) of Wyoming2
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri2
- Geology of the Northern Needle Range Millard County, Utah2
- Atokan (Late Bashkirian or Early Moscovian) brachiopods from the Hare Fiord Formation of Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago1
- A Middle Pennsylvanian fauna from the Naco Formation near Kohl Ranch, Central Arizona1
- Geology of the Garns Mountain Quadrangle Bonneville, Madison, and Teton Counties, Idaho1
- Structure and Stratigraphy of San Francisco Mountains, Western Utah1
Each of the 55 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
Media content1
Picture of Anthracospirifer occiduus
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No 3D scan of Anthracospirifer occiduus 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 itAnthracospirifer through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sadlick 1960)