Arduspirifer

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HysterolitinaePBDB
- 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 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 385.9 Mya.
38 occurrences of Arduspirifer on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
38 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
23 formations
- Jemelle Formation6
- Mariposas Formation3
- Neichnerberg Formation · Singhofen Group2
- Gladbach Formation2
- Arauz Formation · Abadia Group2
- Castellar Formation2
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The named rock units Arduspirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Arduspirifer and its relatives
DevonianWhere Arduspirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
215 taxa- Icriodus9 sites
- Pleurodictyum8 sites
- Schizophoria8 sites
- Spinocyrtia8 sites
- Euryspirifer7 sites
- Atrypa6 sites
- Leptostrophia6 sites
- Nowakia6 sites
- Polygnathus6 sites
- Rugosa6 sites
- Subcuspidella6 sites
- Brachyspirifer5 sites
- Chonetes5 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Cyrtina5 sites
- Eodevonaria5 sites
- Nuculites5 sites
- Chlupacina4 sites
- Douvillina4 sites
- Euryspirifer assimilis4 sites
- Phacops4 sites
- Rhenothyris4 sites
- Acrospirifer3 sites
- Actinopteria3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Arduspirifer, 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
13 references- The Devonian of Celtiberia (Spain) and Devonian paleogeography of SW Europe9
- Korrelationen des Eifelium/Givetium-Grenzbereichs im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge7
- Upper Siegenian and Lower Emsian in the Eifel Hills6
- Les brachiopodes (Pentamerida, Atrypida et Spiriferida) de la fin de l’Eifelien et du début du Givetien à Pondrôme (Belgique, bord sud du Synclinorium de Dinant)4
- The Eifelian-Givetian boundary and Struve's Middle Devonian Great Gap in the Couvin area (Ardennes, southern Belgium)2
- Silur und Devon im Arauz-Gebiet (Prov. Palencia, N-Spanien)2
- The fauna of the Baton River Beds (Devonian), New Zealand2
- First record of the Early Devonian ammonoid Teicherticeras from the Eifel (Germany): biogeographic and biostratigraphic importance1
- The first record of Early Devonian ammonoids from Belgium and their stratigraphic significance1
- Leonispirifer leonensis gen. et sp. nov., a rare delthyridoid spiriferid brachiopod from northern Spain (Brachiopoda, Lower Devonian)1
- Ecological Change during the early Emsian (Devonian) in the Tafilalt (Morocco),the Origin of the Ammonoidea,and the First African Pyrgocystid Edrioasteroids,Machaerids and Phyllocarids1
- The fossils of the Hunsrück Slate: Marine life in the Devonian1
Each of the 38 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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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Picture of Arduspirifer
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No 3D scan of Arduspirifer 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 itHysterolitinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mittmeyer 1972