Retispira ornatissima
No picture of Retispira ornatissima 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 ornatissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Retispira ornatissima on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Retispira ornatissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retispira ornatissima and its relatives
PermianWhere Retispira ornatissima and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Astartella progenetrix2 sites
- Astartella ambiensis1 site
- Baylea durga1 site
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon)1 site
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) blanfordianus1 site
- Betaneospirifer ambiensis1 site
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa1 site
- Dielasma1 site
- Dyscritella1 site
- Eucharis grandaeva1 site
- Hayasakapora grossa1 site
- Leptodesma chidruensis1 site
- Linoproductus lineatus1 site
- Marginifera (Marginifera) ornata1 site
- Palaeolima middlemissi1 site
- Permophorus subovalis1 site
- Plagioglypta1 site
- Plagiostoma inversa1 site
- Retispira kattaensis1 site
- Schizodus1 site
- Septopora1 site
- Spengleria vetusta1 site
- Stenodiscus chaetetiformis1 site
- Stenopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Retispira ornatissima, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Retispira ornatissima 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 ornatissima, 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 PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1880)