Australospirifer
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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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
86 occurrences of Australospirifer 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
86 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
15 formations
- Ponta Grossa Formation17
- Gydo Formation · Bokkeveld Group11
- Icla Formation8
- Huamampampa Formation7
- Voorstehoek Formation · Bokkeveld Group4
- Gamoneda Formation4
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The named rock units Australospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Australospirifer and its relatives
DevonianWhere Australospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
260 taxa- Australocoelia51 sites
- Schuchertella32 sites
- Crinoidea27 sites
- Notiochonetes25 sites
- Tentaculites24 sites
- Derbyina21 sites
- Nuculites21 sites
- Orbiculoidea19 sites
- Burmeisteria18 sites
- Cryptonella15 sites
- Lingula15 sites
- Bivalvia13 sites
- Plectonotus13 sites
- Palaeoneilo12 sites
- Anchiopella11 sites
- Conularia11 sites
- Solemya11 sites
- Ostracoda10 sites
- Australostrophia9 sites
- Grammysia9 sites
- Hyolithes9 sites
- Mesoconularia9 sites
- Metacryphaeus9 sites
- Pennaia9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Australospirifer, 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- Devonian stratigraphy and brachiopod paleontology of Bolivia. part B: Spiriferida and Terebratulida32
- Preliminary catalogue and report on the biostratigraphy and palaeogeographic distribution of the Bokkeveld fauna19
- The Malvinokaffric realm in the Devonian of Brazil18
- Esperiferideos da Bacia do Parana9
- New Devonian fossil localities in Bolivia1
- The Lower Devonian chonetoidean brachiopods from the Argentine Precordillera1
- Palaeoecology and systematics of Early Devonian bivalves from the Horlick Formation, Ohio Range, Antarctica1
- Benthic communities and sedimentary facies in the Lower Witteberg Group, (Devonian, South Africa)1
- Devonian invertebrates from the Bokkeveld Group below the Karoo succession near Sutherland1
- Devonian stratigraphy and brachiopod paleontology of Bolivia. part A: Orthida and Strophomenida1
- A contribution to the knowledge of the Devonian faunas of Colombia1
- A Devonian fauna from Colombia1
Each of the 86 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
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No picture of Australospirifer 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 Australospirifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itHysterolitinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.