Girtyspira inflata
No picture of Girtyspira inflata 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 Girtyspira inflata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GirtyspiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, carnivorePBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Meekospiridae
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Girtyspira inflata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Girtyspira inflata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Girtyspira inflata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Girtyspira inflata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Angyomphalus radianodosa2 sites
- Araeonema nacreformis2 sites
- Austroneilsonia gundyensis2 sites
- Borestus costatus2 sites
- Euphemites labrosa2 sites
- Glabrocingulum pustulum2 sites
- Hesperiella planorbis2 sites
- Hypergonia elongata2 sites
- Kimina minor2 sites
- Microdoma angulata2 sites
- Naticopsis osbornei2 sites
- Pseudoaclisina turgida2 sites
- Retispira culleni2 sites
- Serpulospira scalariformis2 sites
- Sinuitina portulacoides2 sites
- Soleniscus callosus2 sites
- Stegocoelia nodosa2 sites
- Straparollus davidi2 sites
- Tropidodiscus carinatus2 sites
- Turbonitella2 sites
- Worthenia2 sites
- Agnesia reticulata1 site
- Araeonema microspirulata1 site
- Australoscutula ardua1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Girtyspira inflata, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Girtyspira inflata 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 Girtyspira inflata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Girtyspira inflata 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 itGirtyspira through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yoo 1994