Retispira tumidus
No picture of Retispira tumidus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Retispira tumidus, 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 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Retispira tumidus 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Retispira tumidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retispira tumidus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Retispira tumidus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Aulopora2 sites
- Cornellites2 sites
- Digonus2 sites
- Eoschizodus2 sites
- Goniomorpha2 sites
- Guerangeria2 sites
- Palaeoneilo2 sites
- Stylonema calva2 sites
- Tropidodiscus2 sites
- Acastava1 site
- Brachyspirifer1 site
- Carinopsinae <gen. et sp. indet.>1 site
- Carydium sociale1 site
- Coeloprion gracilis1 site
- Cypricardella1 site
- Grammysia1 site
- Grandostoma1 site
- Kochia capuliformis1 site
- Lennea1 site
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)1 site
- Modiomorpha1 site
- Murchisonia1 site
- Mytilarca1 site
- Nuculoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Retispira tumidus, 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
1 referenceEach 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 tumidus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Retispira tumidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retispira tumidus 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 DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sandberger and Sandberger 1853)