Neospirifer
Searched as Neospirifer marcoui infraplica. The Paleobiology Database treats Neospirifer as the accepted name.
Neospirifer is an extinct genus of articulate brachiopod fossils belonging to the family Trigonotretidae.
Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeospiriferinaePBDB
- 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 most 7.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of 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
1 occurrences- 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Neospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neospirifer and its relatives
PermianWhere Neospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
346 taxa- Composita subtilita109 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer98 sites
- Hustedia mormoni64 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis59 sites
- Reticulatia huecoensis52 sites
- Crinoidea51 sites
- Hystriculina wabashensis49 sites
- Derbyia48 sites
- Punctospirifer kentuckensis44 sites
- Crurithyris expansa35 sites
- Linipalus magnispinus35 sites
- Linoproductus prattenianus34 sites
- Derbyia crassa32 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis31 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa29 sites
- Linoproductus29 sites
- Trepostomata28 sites
- Fusulinidae26 sites
- Crurithyris25 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina25 sites
- Meekella23 sites
- Wellerella osagensis23 sites
- Composita22 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa21 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 935 sites for Neospirifer, and this reads 240 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content2
Picture of Neospirifer
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Neospirifer”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
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. (Fredericks 1919)