Orthospirifer

Orthospirifer

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpinocyrtiidaePBDB
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 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 136 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 135 of 136 occurrencesDevonian428–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 37 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 41 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 43 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 4 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 2 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 2 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 2 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences422.7 Mya382.31 Mya428 Mya371 Mya

136 occurrences of Orthospirifer on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

136 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

17 formations

Geneseo — 42.33°N, 74.45°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 76.17°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 75.30°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 74.30°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.42°WGeneseo — 42.58°N, 75.16°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 74.81°WGeneseo — 42.56°N, 74.85°WGeneseo — 42.48°N, 74.61°WGeneseo — 42.38°N, 74.43°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 75.21°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 75.52°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 76.59°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 74.68°WGeneseo — 42.52°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 75.07°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.87°WLittle Cedar — 42.00°N, 91.00°WLittle Cedar — 42.37°N, 92.41°WTully — 42.54°N, 74.81°WTully — 42.52°N, 74.86°WTully — 42.57°N, 74.74°WTully — 42.43°N, 74.50°WTully — 42.53°N, 76.59°WTully — 42.53°N, 75.13°WTully — 42.56°N, 74.85°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.87°WMoscow — 42.43°N, 74.49°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.60°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.49°WCoralville — 42.50°N, 92.00°WCoralville — 41.67°N, 91.53°WCoralville — 41.63°N, 90.63°WCoralville — 42.37°N, 92.41°WLithograph City — 41.63°N, 90.63°WLithograph City — 42.37°N, 92.41°WBeers Hill equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WMeads Creek equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WCano del Oeste — 10.50°N, 72.50°WCedar Valley Limestone — 38.71°N, 91.89°WGilboa — 42.53°N, 76.59°WMillport equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WRhinestreet — 42.70°N, 74.93°WRead Bay — 75.00°N, 95.00°WWilliams Island — 50.36°N, 81.58°WTibidy — 48.30°N, 4.25°WMilwaukee — 43.02°N, 87.90°W

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The named rock units Orthospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthospirifer and its relatives

Devonian

Where Orthospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Orthospirifer, 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

17 references

Each of the 136 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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

Picture of Orthospirifer

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Orthospirifer 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pitrat 1975