Punctospirifer solidirostris

Punctospirifer solidirostris

Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas, Barry Stephen Kues · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PunctospiriferPBDB
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 36 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 29 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 29 of 29 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 1 occurrence358–357 Mya — about 3 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 3 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 3 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 3 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 3 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 3 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 2 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 2 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 2 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359.6 Mya322.7 Mya

29 occurrences of Punctospirifer solidirostris 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

29 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

10 formations

Banff — 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°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°WGilmore City Limestone — 42.73°N, 94.46°WGilmore City Limestone — 42.75°N, 94.45°WWassonville — 41.58°N, 91.33°WMaynes Creek — 42.83°N, 93.24°WLeadville Limestone — 38.02°N, 107.67°WLivingstone — 50.60°N, 114.84°WBesa River — 61.10°N, 123.98°WHampton — 42.01°N, 92.78°WMonte Cristo — 35.62°N, 115.53°W

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The named rock units Punctospirifer solidirostris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Punctospirifer solidirostris and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Punctospirifer solidirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Punctospirifer solidirostris, 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

11 references

Each of the 29 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 Punctospirifer solidirostris

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas, Barry Stephen Kues
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 itPunctospirifer through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (White 1860)