Goniospira

Goniospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ZygopleurinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 209 million years on record.

The record covers at least 425 Mya to 215.38 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 211.18 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 15 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 14 of 15 occurrencesLate Triassic431–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–237 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences237–229 Mya — about 11 occurrences222–214 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences214–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences425 Mya215.38 Mya431 Mya207 Mya

15 occurrences of Goniospira on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

15 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

5 formations

Cassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.59°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ESan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.39°EWeishan — 24.97°N, 100.31°EBaijizu — 26.43°N, 99.41°E

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

Goniospira and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Goniospira and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

716 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Goniospira, 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

7 references

Each of the 15 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

Media content1

Picture of Goniospira

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Goniospira was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itZygopleurinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1895