Eospirifer radiatus

Eospirifer radiatus

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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 least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 421.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 160 occurrencesSilurian — about 160 of 160 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 4 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 5 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 5 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 5 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 5 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 5 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 5 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 7 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 18 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 19 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 18 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 8 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 7 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 7 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 7 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 7 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 5 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 5 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438.6 Mya425 Mya443.6 Mya420.8 Mya

160 occurrences of Eospirifer radiatus 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

160 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

61 formations

Rochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.16°N, 77.68°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WRochester — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WRochester — 43.15°N, 75.86°WIrondequoit — 43.18°N, 78.72°WIrondequoit — 43.20°N, 77.62°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 77.21°WIrondequoit — 43.21°N, 76.88°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WIrondequoit — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WRochester Shale — 43.16°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.72°WRochester Shale — 43.22°N, 76.82°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.60°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 42.12°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WPaprieniai — 55.25°N, 23.15°EPaprieniai — 55.20°N, 23.87°EPaprieniai — 55.67°N, 25.38°EWilliamson Shale — 43.22°N, 77.19°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WWaldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WDubysa — 54.65°N, 23.03°EDubysa — 55.08°N, 25.42°EUpper Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WGeluva — 55.00°N, 23.30°EGeluva — 55.08°N, 25.42°EGeluva — 54.65°N, 23.03°EWilliamson — 43.23°N, 77.21°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 76.98°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 76.30°WWilliamson — 43.24°N, 76.14°WRiga — 55.08°N, 25.42°ERiga — 54.65°N, 23.03°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EChicotte — 49.38°N, 63.60°WWillowvale — 43.04°N, 75.36°WWillowvale — 43.03°N, 75.28°WJaani — 58.51°N, 22.00°EJaani — 58.68°N, 23.20°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WUpper Kaochaitien — 26.63°N, 106.80°EBringewood Beds — 51.90°N, 2.08°WClough — 43.50°N, 72.25°W

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The named rock units Eospirifer radiatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eospirifer radiatus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Eospirifer radiatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,086 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 158 sites for Eospirifer radiatus, 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

39 references

Each of the 160 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. 27 further references are not listed. 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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Picture of Eospirifer radiatus

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No 3D scan of Eospirifer radiatus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1834)