Neospirifer (Neospirifer)

No picture of Neospirifer (Neospirifer) 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 Neospirifer (Neospirifer), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeospiriferPBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPermian291–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283.3 Mya259.857 Mya290.8 Mya253.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Neospirifer (Neospirifer) on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

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

1 formation

High Cliff Sandstone — 29.19°S, 115.66°E

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The named rock units Neospirifer (Neospirifer) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neospirifer (Neospirifer) and its relatives

Permian

Where Neospirifer (Neospirifer) and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Neospirifer (Neospirifer), 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

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. 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Neospirifer (Neospirifer) 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 Neospirifer (Neospirifer), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itNeospirifer through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fredericks 1919