Retispira waverliensis
No picture of Retispira waverliensis 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 waverliensis, 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 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 351.9 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Retispira waverliensis 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Logan Formation · Waverly Group2
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The named rock units Retispira waverliensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retispira waverliensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Retispira waverliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Euphemites subglobosus2 sites
- Glabrocingulum stellaeformis2 sites
- Globozyga reticulata2 sites
- Mourlonia textus2 sites
- Pseudomulceodens cancellatus2 sites
- Vorticina cyrtolites2 sites
- Worthenia strigillata2 sites
- Agnesia prosseri1 site
- Bellerophon jeffersonensis1 site
- Loxonema pikensis1 site
- Neilsonia uninodocarinata1 site
- Orthonychia infabricatus1 site
- Orthonychia sciotoensis1 site
- Orthonychia waverlyensis1 site
- Palaeocapulus equilateralis1 site
- Ptomatis proteiforme1 site
- Spiroscala solida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Retispira waverliensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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. 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 waverliensis 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 waverliensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retispira waverliensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyde 1953)