Decorospira rigbyi
No picture of Decorospira rigbyi 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 Decorospira rigbyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DecorospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Decorospira rigbyi 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.
Found in
1 formation
- Denay Limestone Formation · Nevada Group2
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The named rock units Decorospira rigbyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Decorospira rigbyi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Decorospira rigbyi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Naticopsis (Naticopsis)2 sites
- Nucleospira2 sites
- Petrochus2 sites
- Schuchertella2 sites
- Ambocoelia1 site
- Anatrypa (Variatrypa) licta1 site
- Anatrypa calypso1 site
- Ancyropyge1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Antistrix invicta1 site
- Bellerophon nevadensis1 site
- Bicarina1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Cassidirostrum1 site
- Conotoma aurora1 site
- Denayella housei1 site
- Devonalosia1 site
- Echinocoelia denayensis1 site
- Eleutherospira sinistralis1 site
- Gypidula1 site
- Kitikamispira minuitinodosa1 site
- Ladjia1 site
- Leiorhynchus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Decorospira rigbyi, 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 Decorospira rigbyi 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 Decorospira rigbyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Decorospira rigbyi 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 itDecorospira through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blodgett and Johnson 1992