Girtyspira minuta

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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 least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 16 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 16 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–303 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences318.6 Mya303.7 Mya323.9 Mya298.4 Mya

16 occurrences of Girtyspira minuta 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

16 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

10 formations

Allegheny — 40.77°N, 80.77°WAllegheny — 40.77°N, 80.70°WAllegheny — 39.53°N, 82.40°WAllegheny — 40.07°N, 82.02°WConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WConemaugh — 39.69°N, 82.03°WMadera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.12°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WAppanoose — 38.70°N, 90.39°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WGrindstone Creek — 32.71°N, 98.08°WRed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°WDennis — 39.11°N, 94.58°W

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The named rock units Girtyspira minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Girtyspira minuta and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Girtyspira minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

434 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Girtyspira minuta, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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 Girtyspira minuta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Girtyspira minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Stevens 1858)