Retispira sullivani
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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 most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Retispira sullivani 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Retispira sullivani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retispira sullivani and its relatives
DevonianWhere Retispira sullivani and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- <Stropheodontid>1 site
- Aclisina1 site
- Alaskozygopleura crassicostata1 site
- Alaskozygopleura gracillium1 site
- Bellerophon chapmani1 site
- Bellerophon livengoodensis1 site
- Bellerophon pelops1 site
- Bembexia1 site
- Bensbergia subcostata1 site
- Buechelia nodosa1 site
- Buechelia tyrrelli1 site
- Callistadia1 site
- Clathronema cingulata1 site
- Clathronema cloughi1 site
- Dechenella1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Euomphalidae1 site
- Euomphalus bundtzeni1 site
- Euryzone1 site
- Goniasma1 site
- Gyronematinae1 site
- Hypomphalocirrus rugosus1 site
- Jedria deckeri1 site
- Kitikamispira1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Retispira sullivani, 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- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Taxonomy and paleobiogeographic affinities of an early Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Gastropod faunule from the Livengood Quadrangle, East-Central Alaska1
- The Middle Devonian Rogers City Limestone and its gastropod fauna1
Each of the 3 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
Media content0
No picture of Retispira sullivani 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 sullivani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retispira sullivani was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itRetispira through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Blodgett 1992)