Pseudospiriferina pinguis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudospiriferinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 244.4 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pseudospiriferina pinguis on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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- Middle Triassic100%
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 Pseudospiriferina pinguis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudospiriferina pinguis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Pseudospiriferina pinguis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Dagyssia multicostata1 site
- Diholkorhynchia sinensis1 site
- Mentzelia paucicostata1 site
- Pseudospiriferina multicostata1 site
- Pseudospiriferina variabilis1 site
- Punctospirella fragilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pseudospiriferina pinguis, 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- Silicified Anisian (Middle Triassic) spiriferinid brachiopods from Guizhou, South China1
- Yang and Xu, 19661
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pseudospiriferina pinguis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudospiriferina pinguis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itPseudospiriferina through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yang and Xu 1966