Eospirifer (Eospirifer)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EospiriferPBDB
- 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 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 440.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Eospirifer (Eospirifer) on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
7 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Eospirifer (Eospirifer) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eospirifer (Eospirifer) and its relatives
SilurianWhere Eospirifer (Eospirifer) and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Leptaena rugosa5 sites
- Levenea llandoveriana5 sites
- Cathaysiorthis yushanensis4 sites
- Eospirigerina putilla4 sites
- Brevilamnulella kjerulfi3 sites
- Epitomyonia3 sites
- Fardenia (Fardenia) flexa3 sites
- Glyptorthis3 sites
- Katastrophomena zheganensis3 sites
- Pseudolingula3 sites
- Aegiria apta2 sites
- Alispira2 sites
- Cathaysiorthidae2 sites
- Cathaysiorthis xichuanensis2 sites
- Levenea qianbeiensis2 sites
- Mendacella2 sites
- Paracraniops pararius2 sites
- Protatrypa2 sites
- Rostricellula2 sites
- Sulcatospira2 sites
- Thebesia thebesensis2 sites
- Whitfieldella2 sites
- Aegiromena (Aegiromenella) planissima1 site
- Chunanella chunnanensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eospirifer (Eospirifer), 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- Latest Ordovician and earliest Silurian brachiopods succeeding the Hirnantia fauna in south-east China5
- A new Cathaysiorthis (Brachiopoda) fauna from the lower Llandovery of eastern Qinling, China2
Each of the 7 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 Eospirifer (Eospirifer) 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 Eospirifer (Eospirifer), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eospirifer (Eospirifer) 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 itEospirifer through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert 1913