Cyrtospirifer verneuili

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyrtospiriferPBDB
- 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 382.31 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
35 occurrences of Cyrtospirifer verneuili 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
35 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
12 formations
- Ferques Formation11
- Geirud Formation4
- Beaulieu Formation3
- Badragha Formation3
- Quttah Formation2
- Pilton Shales Formation2
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The named rock units Cyrtospirifer verneuili has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyrtospirifer verneuili and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cyrtospirifer verneuili and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
169 taxa- Athyris12 sites
- Productella subaculeata12 sites
- Spinatrypa12 sites
- Ripidiorhynchus10 sites
- Schizophoria striatula9 sites
- Crinoidea7 sites
- Douvillina dutertrei7 sites
- Adolfia5 sites
- Douvillina5 sites
- Eoschuchertella5 sites
- Apousiella4 sites
- Athyris concentrica4 sites
- Disphyllum4 sites
- Longispina4 sites
- Nervostrophia latissima4 sites
- Plexituba4 sites
- Ptychomaletoechia4 sites
- Stromatoporoidea4 sites
- Alveolites3 sites
- Aulopora3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Hexagonaria3 sites
- Ptychopteria3 sites
- Retichonetes3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Cyrtospirifer verneuili, 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
11 references- Brachiopod assemblages in the Devonian of Ferques (Boulonnais, France). Relations to palaeoenvironments and global eustatic curves.10
- Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores5
- Brachiopodes du Devonien de Ferques (Boulonnais-France)4
- The Geology of the Upper Djadjerud and Lar Valleys (Northern Iran) II. Paleontology. Brachiopods and Molluscs from Geirud Formation, Member A (Upper Devonian and Tournaisian)4
- Devonian and Carboniferous brachiopods from the northern flank of the Murzug Basin (Libya)3
- Edmonds et al., 19852
- New Asteropyginae (Trilobita) from the Devonian of Afghanistan2
- The sedimentology and palaeoecology of the Devonian of the Ferques inlier, northern France2
- The “Nehden Goniatite Shale” (lower Famennian, Brilon Reef Complex, NE Rhenish Massif)1
- The Devonian of the Hodh area (Islamic Republic of Mauritania): paleontology and stratigraphy1
- First records of Givetian and Frasnian (Devonian) Rugosa from the Pamir Mountains, Tadjikistan1
Each of the 35 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
Media content2

Picture of Cyrtospirifer verneuili
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dwergenpaartje
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- EDDyLab @ULiege
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itCyrtospirifer through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Murchison 1840)