Austrospirifer
No picture of Austrospirifer 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 Austrospirifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtospiriferinaePBDB
- 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 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Austrospirifer 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
2 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.
Austrospirifer and its relatives
DevonianWhere Austrospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Athyris concentrica2 sites
- Aulacella2 sites
- Aulacella interlineata2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Blastoidea2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Buchiola2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Cladochonus2 sites
- Coleolidae2 sites
- Cranaena2 sites
- Crurithyris urei2 sites
- Cyrtina2 sites
- Eobrachythyris2 sites
- Euomphalidae2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Hamlingella2 sites
- Hamlingella goergesi2 sites
- Hyattechinus2 sites
- Kitakamithyris2 sites
- Leptagonia analoga2 sites
- Omegops2 sites
- Orthotetes2 sites
- Ostracoda2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Austrospirifer, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Austrospirifer 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 Austrospirifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Austrospirifer 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 itCyrtospiriferinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.