Quiringites

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HowellellinaePBDB
- 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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Quiringites on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
12 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
8 formations
- Selscheid Formation2
- Meinkenbracht Formation2
- Junkerberg Formation2
- Freilingen Formation2
- Mühlenberg Formation1
- Taboumakhloûf Formation1
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The named rock units Quiringites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Quiringites and its relatives
DevonianWhere Quiringites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Icriodus8 sites
- Mucrospirifer8 sites
- Polygnathus8 sites
- Icriodus regularicrescens7 sites
- Schizophoria7 sites
- Primipilaria6 sites
- Reticulariopsis6 sites
- Atrypa5 sites
- Atrypa (Planatrypa)5 sites
- Nowakia5 sites
- Atryparia4 sites
- Gudralisium viator4 sites
- Spinocyrtia4 sites
- Cornuproetus (Cornuproetus) meinkenbrachtensis3 sites
- Dechenella praeverneuili3 sites
- Geesops brunopauli3 sites
- Icriodus arkonensis walliserianus3 sites
- Metastyliolina3 sites
- Phacops latifrons3 sites
- Arduspirifer2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Dechenella altenae2 sites
- Pedinopariops proniceps2 sites
- Pedinopariops simulator2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Quiringites, 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
3 references- Korrelationen des Eifelium/Givetium-Grenzbereichs im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge10
- Middle Devonian brachiopod-hosted sclerobiont assemblage from the northern shelf of Gondwana (Mader Basin, Morocco): Diversity, colonization patterns and relation to coeval palaeocommunities1
- Die Fossilführung des Mitteldevons im Raum Attendorn-Olpe (West-Sauerland; Rechtsrheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Middle Devonian fossils of the Attendorn-Olpe area (western Sauerland; Rhenish Massif]1
Each of the 12 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 Quiringites
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Quiringites 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 itHowellellinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.