Punctospirella fragilis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PunctospirellaPBDB
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 least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 83 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 79 of 83 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 4 of 83 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 83 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 3 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 8 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 30 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 12 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 13 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 8 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 5 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244.4 Mya233.6 Mya247.9 Mya200.5 Mya

83 occurrences of Punctospirella fragilis 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

83 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

18 formations

Esino — 45.91°N, 9.69°EFelsõörs — 46.92°N, 17.82°EFelsõörs — 46.89°N, 17.63°EKarchowice — 50.00°N, 19.00°EMuschelkalk — 50.51°N, 18.34°EMuschelkalk — 50.46°N, 18.17°EMt. Facito — 40.48°N, 15.65°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.00°N, 20.00°EWetterstein — 48.50°N, 17.33°EWellenkalk — 49.78°N, 9.93°ESandorhegy Limestone — 47.00°N, 17.90°EKonglomeratbank 3 — 51.52°N, 14.75°EWetterstein — 48.47°N, 20.53°EWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°ENazarkardeh — 35.97°N, 60.90°EGuanling — 25.53°N, 104.89°ESan Salvatore — 45.86°N, 8.81°EBuchenstein — 46.42°N, 11.80°EMarmolata — 46.45°N, 11.87°EVászoly — 47.07°N, 17.97°E

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The named rock units Punctospirella fragilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Punctospirella fragilis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Punctospirella fragilis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

591 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Punctospirella fragilis, 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

32 references

Each of the 83 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. 20 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 content0

No picture of Punctospirella fragilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Punctospirella fragilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Punctospirella fragilis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPunctospirella through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlotheim 1814)