Retispira tenuilineata

Retispira tenuilineata

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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 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.6 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 326.9 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 24 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 28 occurrencesPermian328–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 4 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 4 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 4 occurrences307–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 3 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 4 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 3 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323.6 Mya276.8 Mya328 Mya264 Mya

28 occurrences of Retispira tenuilineata 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

28 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

13 formations

Allegheny — 40.77°N, 80.70°WAllegheny — 40.88°N, 80.87°WAllegheny — 40.90°N, 80.85°WAllegheny — 41.03°N, 80.78°WAllegheny — 40.93°N, 80.48°WLaborcita — 33.08°N, 105.99°WLaborcita — 32.99°N, 105.92°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WMadera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.12°WStotler Limestone — 38.06°N, 96.22°WJanesville Shale — 37.24°N, 96.53°WBeattie — 37.37°N, 96.54°WBar B — 32.87°N, 107.27°WAmsden — 42.64°N, 108.71°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WZeandale Limestone — 37.63°N, 96.37°WRed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°W

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

Retispira tenuilineata and its relatives

Carboniferous

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

Found in the same rock

411 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Retispira tenuilineata, 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

10 references

Each of the 28 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 Retispira tenuilineata

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iDigBio
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Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Retispira tenuilineata 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 itRetispira through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gurley 1884)