Prospira

Prospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProspirinaePBDB
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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 335.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 7 of 63 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 56 of 63 occurrencesCarboniferous373–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 1 occurrence363–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–358 Mya — about 3 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 6 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 6 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 6 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 6 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 6 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 6 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 6 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 6 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 1 occurrence345–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences358.86 Mya335.9 Mya373 Mya329.5 Mya

63 occurrences of Prospira 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

63 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

11 formations

Banff — 53.06°N, 118.13°WBanff — 52.08°N, 116.43°WBanff — 53.03°N, 118.08°WBanff — 51.80°N, 115.83°WBanff — 51.68°N, 115.83°WBanff — 51.60°N, 115.77°WBanff — 51.42°N, 115.75°WBanff — 51.25°N, 115.47°WBanff — 51.15°N, 115.55°WBanff — 51.08°N, 115.17°WBanff — 50.91°N, 114.85°WGilmore City Limestone — 42.73°N, 94.46°WGilmore City Limestone — 42.74°N, 94.45°WGilmore City Limestone — 42.75°N, 94.45°WNamoi — 31.03°S, 150.57°EDangarfield — 31.08°S, 150.57°EEtroeungt — 50.06°N, 3.95°ELodgepole Limestone — 42.63°N, 111.87°WLodgepole Limestone — 42.81°N, 111.82°WLodgepole Limestone — 42.05°N, 112.28°WLodgepole Limestone — 42.12°N, 111.41°WMarar — 28.08°N, 13.00°EMarar — 25.78°N, 10.55°EMarar — 27.50°N, 14.50°EWaverley — 32.50°S, 151.00°ESt. Joe — 36.03°N, 92.81°WBerrico Creek — 31.98°S, 151.70°EBaywulla — 25.04°S, 151.31°E

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The named rock units Prospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prospira and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Prospira and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Prospira, 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

12 references

Each of the 63 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

Picture of Prospira

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProspirinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.