Holcospirifer insignis

No picture of Holcospirifer insignis 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 Holcospirifer insignis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 3.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 425 Mya to 421.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425 Mya421.3 Mya427.2 Mya419.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Holcospirifer insignis 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

4 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

3 formations

Hemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.31°N, 18.37°EEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°EEke — 57.28°N, 18.62°E

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

Holcospirifer insignis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Holcospirifer insignis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Holcospirifer insignis, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 content0

No picture of Holcospirifer insignis 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 Holcospirifer insignis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Holcospirifer insignis 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 itAldanispirifer through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hedström 1923)