Lepidospirifer

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NeospiriferinaePBDB

Diet

suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida

Life habit

epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida

Motility

stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida

Vision

blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata

Environment

marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

• Permian100%

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.

Where Lepidospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Permian. Draw the map

• Hercosia uddeni23 sites
• Chonosteges variabilis20 sites
• Meekella calathica19 sites
• Rugatia paraindica19 sites
• Acosarina mesoplatys18 sites
• Echinauris irregularis18 sites
• Composita16 sites
• Permophricodothyris bullata16 sites
• Rhamnaria tenuispinosa16 sites
• Stenoscisma triquetrum16 sites
• Peniculauris subcostata15 sites
• Xenosteges adherens15 sites
• Derbyia laqueata14 sites
• Dyoros (Lissosia) vagabundus14 sites
• Edriosteges multispinosus14 sites
• Hustedia lusca14 sites
• Megousia auriculata14 sites
• Nudauris linospina14 sites
• Rhipidomella hispidula14 sites
• Choanodus irregularis13 sites
• Choanodus perfectus13 sites
• Derbyia13 sites
• Institella leonardensis13 sites
• Metriolepis tegulata13 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Lepidospirifer, 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.

• Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VICooper and Grant, 1977 · Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology · journal article37
• The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of BrachiopodaKing, 1931 · The University of Texas Bulletin · serial monograph4
• Permian brachiopods from the Selong Xishan Section, Xizang (Tibet), China. Part 1: Stratigraphy, Strophomenida, Productida and RhynchonellidaShen et al., 2000 · Geobios · journal article1
• Middle Permian brachiopods from Hiyomo, Mino Belt, central Japan: their provincial relationships with North AmericaTazawa and Shen, 1997 · Science Reports, Niigata University, Series E · journal article1
• Lower Permian brachiopods and molluscs from the upper Jungle Creek Formation, northern Yukon Territory, CanadaShi and Waterhouse, 1996 · Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin · serial monograph1

Each of the 44 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.

What may have been alongside itNeospiriferinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1969