Anthracospirifer

Searched as Anthracospirifer welleri welleri. The Paleobiology Database treats Anthracospirifer as the accepted name.

Anthracospirifer

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SergospiriferinaePBDB
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 most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.4 Mya and 321.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous335–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335.9 Mya321.3 Mya

6 occurrences of Anthracospirifer 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

6 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

Amsden — 42.59°N, 108.67°W

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

Anthracospirifer and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Anthracospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

893 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 248 sites for Anthracospirifer, and this reads 240 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 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Anthracospirifer

Source
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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Anthracospirifer 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 itSergospiriferinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lane 1963