Eospirifer (Multispirifer)

Multispirifer Kaplun, 1961, a relative of Eospirifer (Multispirifer) — not Eospirifer (Multispirifer) itself

Not Eospirifer (Multispirifer). This is Multispirifer Kaplun, 1961, a relative — both are Acrospiriferidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 399.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesDevonian413–413 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences409–409 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences408–408 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences407–407 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences406–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences404–404 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences403–403 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences402–402 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences400–400 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413.5 Mya399 Mya

3 occurrences of Eospirifer (Multispirifer) 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

3 occurrences

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

2 formations

Kulamat — 53.00°N, 57.18°ETyutyulen — 53.00°N, 57.18°E

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The named rock units Eospirifer (Multispirifer) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eospirifer (Multispirifer) and its relatives

Devonian

Where Eospirifer (Multispirifer) and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Eospirifer (Multispirifer), so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Multispirifer Kaplun, 1961

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eospirifer (Multispirifer) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itEospirifer through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kaplun 1961