Eospirigerina

Eospirigerina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpirigerininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 454 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 102 of 214 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 112 of 214 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 9 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 15 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 14 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 14 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 16 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 19 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 30 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 37 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 30 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 8 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 5 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454 Mya432.9 Mya458.8 Mya426.1 Mya

214 occurrences of Eospirigerina 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

214 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

58 formations

Vaureal — 49.82°N, 64.35°WVaureal — 49.77°N, 63.64°WVaureal — 49.63°N, 63.20°WVaureal — 49.73°N, 63.83°WVaureal — 49.63°N, 63.78°WVaureal — 49.82°N, 64.44°WSolvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 59.86°N, 10.56°ESolvik — 59.85°N, 10.47°ETrefawr — 52.12°N, 3.55°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 62.53°WEllis Bay — 49.81°N, 64.01°WEllis Bay — 49.33°N, 61.89°WEllis Bay — 49.72°N, 63.83°WEllis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.84°N, 64.45°WWhite Head — 48.83°N, 64.48°WWhite Head — 48.53°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 46.18°N, 59.82°WBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.00°WBecscie — 49.75°N, 63.64°WBecscie — 49.72°N, 63.33°WBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.36°WBecscie — 49.58°N, 62.56°WBecscie — 49.31°N, 61.84°WFosses — 50.34°N, 5.08°EFosses — 50.40°N, 4.90°EFosses — 50.36°N, 4.60°EXiazhen — 28.63°N, 115.34°EXiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°EBryant Knob — 39.33°N, 91.01°WBryant Knob — 39.45°N, 91.05°WBryant Knob — 39.34°N, 91.19°WBryant Knob — 39.37°N, 90.90°WWhittaker — 62.40°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 63.10°N, 127.40°WAnji — 29.50°N, 118.94°EAnji — 28.96°N, 118.50°EAnji — 28.71°N, 118.35°ETirekhtyakh — 63.97°N, 147.15°ELangåra — 59.89°N, 10.53°ELangåra — 59.85°N, 10.53°ELangoyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangoyen — 59.88°N, 10.59°EShiyang — 28.71°N, 118.40°EHusbergøya — 59.89°N, 10.53°EHusbergøya — 59.85°N, 10.53°EChangwu — 28.71°N, 118.51°ELangara — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangara — 59.88°N, 10.59°EManitoulin — 45.83°N, 82.33°WManitoulin — 45.73°N, 81.80°WKorotkinskaya — 75.25°N, 99.90°EGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WNoix Limestone — 39.42°N, 91.00°WDulankara — 43.75°N, 75.25°EDulankara — 44.71°N, 75.35°ETootsi — 58.75°N, 26.87°E

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The named rock units Eospirigerina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eospirigerina and its relatives

Silurian

Where Eospirigerina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

855 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 206 sites for Eospirigerina, 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

64 references

Each of the 214 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. 52 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

Media content1

Picture of Eospirigerina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eospirigerina 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 itSpirigerininae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert and Cooper 1930