Australispira
No picture of Australispira was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Australispira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpirigerininaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 4.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 452.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 449 Mya.
18 occurrences of Australispira on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
18 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
7 formations
- Vandon Limestone Formation · Cliefden Caves Limestone Group4
- Belubula Formation4
- Billabong Creek Limestone Formation2
- Daylesford Limestone Formation2
- Quondong Limestone Formation2
- Regans Creek Limestone Formation2
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The named rock units Australispira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Australispira and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Australispira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Rhynchotrema oepiki10 sites
- Sowerbyites isotes10 sites
- Mabella halis8 sites
- Zygospira8 sites
- Heliolites7 sites
- Propora7 sites
- Ptychopleurella decretoria7 sites
- Trigrammaria ampla7 sites
- Bajgolia6 sites
- Bowanorthis fragilis6 sites
- Coccoseris6 sites
- Doleroides mixticius6 sites
- Ecclimadictyon6 sites
- Hillophyllum6 sites
- Molongcola variabilis6 sites
- Phaceloorthis decoris6 sites
- Protozyga definitiva6 sites
- Aulopora5 sites
- Chaganella speciosa5 sites
- Eridorthis australis5 sites
- Hesperorthis barbata5 sites
- Tetradium5 sites
- Anoptambonites exedra4 sites
- Didymelasma4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Australispira, 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
2 references- Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia16
- The geology of the Licking Hole Creek area, near Walli, central western New South Wales2
Each of the 18 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 content0
No picture of Australispira was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Australispira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Australispira 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpirigerininae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Percival 1991