Punctospirifer

Punctospirifer

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PunctospiriferidaePBDB
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 114 million years on record.

The record covers at least 368.5 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 523 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 523 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 523 occurrencesDevonian — about 17 of 523 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 397 of 523 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 108 of 523 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 523 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 523 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 523 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 523 occurrences546–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–522 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences522–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences510–499 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences499–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences382–370 Mya — about 2 occurrences370–358 Mya — about 17 occurrences358–347 Mya — about 60 occurrences347–335 Mya — about 68 occurrences335–323 Mya — about 74 occurrences323–312 Mya — about 33 occurrences312–300 Mya — about 146 occurrences300–288 Mya — about 43 occurrences288–277 Mya — about 8 occurrences277–265 Mya — about 53 occurrences265–253 Mya — about 16 occurrences253–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–218 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences218–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368.5 Mya254.14 Mya546 Mya195 Mya

523 occurrences of Punctospirifer 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

523 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

173 formations

Graham — 33.02°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 33.03°N, 98.65°WGraham — 32.96°N, 98.76°WGraham — 31.50°N, 99.37°WGraham — 31.44°N, 99.34°WGraham — 33.01°N, 98.52°WGraham — 33.26°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WWood Siding — 39.27°N, 96.42°WWood Siding — 39.94°N, 95.93°WWood Siding — 39.41°N, 96.20°WWood Siding — 38.75°N, 95.97°WWood Siding — 37.90°N, 96.37°WWood Siding — 37.78°N, 96.43°WWood Siding — 37.60°N, 96.37°WWood Siding — 39.07°N, 96.08°WWood Siding — 40.38°N, 95.66°WWood Siding — 39.91°N, 95.55°WWood Siding — 39.55°N, 96.25°WWood Siding — 39.25°N, 95.90°WWood Siding — 39.07°N, 96.00°WWood Siding — 39.11°N, 96.37°WWinchell — 31.50°N, 98.58°WWinchell — 33.03°N, 98.07°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.54°N, 85.16°WFort Payne Chert — 36.72°N, 85.45°WBanff — 57.00°N, 120.00°WBanff — 53.08°N, 118.06°WBanff — 52.08°N, 116.43°WBanff — 52.98°N, 117.33°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 — 51.15°N, 115.55°WBanff — 51.08°N, 115.17°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.05°N, 86.44°WCherokee Shale — 37.60°N, 94.68°WCherokee Shale — 37.30°N, 94.95°WCherokee Shale — 37.14°N, 95.10°WCherokee Shale — 37.60°N, 94.62°WCherokee Shale — 37.27°N, 94.82°WCherokee Shale — 37.11°N, 94.82°WCherokee Shale — 37.24°N, 94.80°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.50°N, 86.72°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.17°N, 86.57°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.10°N, 86.56°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.90°N, 86.64°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.48°N, 86.30°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.83°N, 86.60°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.18°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.14°WWord — 30.38°N, 103.26°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WPottawatomie — 38.94°N, 95.10°WForaker Limestome — 39.39°N, 96.41°WForaker Limestome — 39.25°N, 96.57°WForaker Limestome — 39.07°N, 96.18°WForaker Limestome — 39.49°N, 96.27°WForaker Limestome — 37.64°N, 96.43°WLodgepole Limestone — 45.97°N, 111.54°WLodgepole Limestone — 42.63°N, 111.87°WLodgepole Limestone — 42.05°N, 112.28°WLodgepole Limestone — 42.12°N, 111.41°WLodgepole Limestone — 43.66°N, 111.33°WDennis — 41.33°N, 94.01°WDennis — 41.40°N, 94.38°WDennis — 39.76°N, 93.80°WDennis — 37.70°N, 95.19°WDennis — 38.44°N, 95.13°WDennis — 37.33°N, 95.44°WJanesville Shale — 39.07°N, 96.08°WJanesville Shale — 38.31°N, 95.30°WJanesville Shale — 39.24°N, 96.18°WJanesville Shale — 39.10°N, 96.37°WJanesville Shale — 38.93°N, 96.05°WStotler Limestone — 39.54°N, 95.59°WStotler Limestone — 39.07°N, 95.98°WStotler Limestone — 38.20°N, 96.22°WStotler Limestone — 39.63°N, 95.61°WGolconda — 38.66°N, 86.78°WGolconda — 37.99°N, 86.56°WGolconda — 37.93°N, 86.54°WGolconda — 37.93°N, 86.57°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.38°WWatahomigi — 36.16°N, 113.17°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.04°WGircha — 36.78°N, 74.47°EGircha — 36.78°N, 74.38°EGircha — 36.85°N, 73.65°EGircha — 36.83°N, 73.60°EPitkin — 35.92°N, 94.20°WPitkin — 35.75°N, 95.20°WPitkin — 35.76°N, 94.81°WPawnee — 40.61°N, 90.03°WPawnee — 37.20°N, 95.20°WPawnee — 37.10°N, 95.28°WPawnee — 36.76°N, 95.54°WSwope — 41.33°N, 94.01°WSwope — 43.26°N, 93.63°WSwope — 41.23°N, 93.93°WSwope — 38.35°N, 94.69°WIola — 39.11°N, 94.68°WIola — 37.42°N, 95.68°WIola — 37.96°N, 95.16°WIola — 36.14°N, 96.24°WWyandotte — 38.63°N, 94.69°WWyandotte — 39.11°N, 94.81°W

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The named rock units Punctospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 149 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Punctospirifer and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Punctospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

949 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 506 sites for Punctospirifer, 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

142 references

Each of the 523 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. 130 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 Punctospirifer

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Punctospirifer 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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What may have been alongside itPunctospiriferidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. North 1920