Gryphus sphenoideus
No picture of Gryphus sphenoideus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Gryphus sphenoideus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GryphusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Gryphus sphenoideus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
17 occurrences- Pliocene2%
- Pleistocene98%
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.
Gryphus sphenoideus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Gryphus sphenoideus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Fallax septatus10 sites
- Ceramisia meneghiniana8 sites
- Dallina septigera7 sites
- Dyscolia guiscardiana2 sites
- Sphenarina sicula2 sites
- Gryphus minor1 site
- Macandrevia cranium1 site
- Megerlia truncata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Gryphus sphenoideus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Brachiopodi batiali nel Pliocene e Pleistocene di Silicia e Calabria15
- The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops)2
Each of the 17 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 Gryphus sphenoideus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Gryphus sphenoideus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gryphus sphenoideus 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 itGryphus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Philippi 1844)