Retispira elegans

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RetispiraPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 326.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 323.6 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 7 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–380 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–322 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences382.31 Mya326.9 Mya389 Mya322 Mya

7 occurrences of Retispira elegans 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

7 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

4 formations

Stainmore — 55.00°N, 1.75°WBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.07°EMaurenne — 50.60°N, 3.38°EAlston — 54.80°N, 2.43°W

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The named rock units Retispira elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Retispira elegans and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Retispira elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Retispira elegans, 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

Each of the 7 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

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No picture of Retispira elegans 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 Retispira elegans, 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 itRetispira through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840)