Montospira kempseyensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MontospiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 4.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 307.4 Mya.
2 occurrences of Montospira kempseyensis 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Montospira kempseyensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Montospira kempseyensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Montospira kempseyensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Cladochonus tenuicollis2 sites
- Levipustula levis2 sites
- Sanguinolites woolnoughi2 sites
- Streblochondria histion2 sites
- Alispirifer contractus1 site
- Composita magnicarina1 site
- Fenestella1 site
- Fenestella macleayensis1 site
- Fenestella malchii1 site
- Fenestella micropora1 site
- Fenestella osbornei1 site
- Fistulamina1 site
- Fistulamina dispersa1 site
- Neospirifer pristinus1 site
- Paraconularia nefarius1 site
- Polypora1 site
- Polypora neerkolensis1 site
- Punctospirifer ambiguus1 site
- Schizodus1 site
- Spinuliplica spinulosa1 site
- Streptorhynchus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Montospira kempseyensis, 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- The geology of the Yarrol Region. Part 1. Biostratigraphy1
- Marine fossils from the Carboniferous glacial rocks of New South Wales1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Montospira kempseyensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Montospira kempseyensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Montospira kempseyensis 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 itMontospira through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Campbell 1962)