Serpulospira

Serpulospira

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuomphaloideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 92 million years on record.

The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 307 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 59 occurrencesDevonian — about 46 of 59 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 13 of 59 occurrencesCarboniferous422–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–410 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences410–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–402 Mya — about 1 occurrence402–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–394 Mya — about 4 occurrences394–390 Mya — about 7 occurrences390–386 Mya — about 12 occurrences386–382 Mya — about 14 occurrences378–374 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences374–370 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences370–366 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences366–362 Mya — about 1 occurrence362–358 Mya — about 2 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 4 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 2 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 2 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–338 Mya — about 2 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences399.5 Mya307 Mya422 Mya301 Mya

59 occurrences of Serpulospira 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

59 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

29 formations

Torquay — 50.47°N, 3.50°WDenay Limestone — 39.98°N, 116.27°WDenay Limestone — 39.55°N, 116.28°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.37°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.89°WCürten — 50.40°N, 8.18°ECürten — 51.81°N, 10.24°ETulcumba Sandstone — 30.97°S, 150.42°ETulcumba Sandstone — 30.70°S, 150.37°ESchwelm — 51.28°N, 7.28°ESchwelm — 51.35°N, 7.58°ESalem — 38.60°N, 86.02°WSalem — 39.19°N, 86.57°WSalem — 38.24°N, 85.98°WGrand Tower Limestone — 39.50°N, 88.38°WBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.07°EBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.03°EDangarfield — 32.05°S, 150.92°EDangarfield — 32.03°S, 150.97°ELucas — 42.13°N, 83.03°WLucas — 42.17°N, 83.18°WLucas — 41.68°N, 83.74°WWinnipegosis — 52.81°N, 100.86°WWassonville — 41.58°N, 91.33°WCascaden — 65.49°N, 148.47°WRepreso — 30.72°N, 112.35°WKellerwand — 46.61°N, 13.00°EBurdekin — 20.00°S, 146.00°ETaemas — 34.83°S, 148.92°ENamoi — 30.98°S, 150.50°EDisappointment Bay — 76.60°N, 88.58°WBrogans Creek Limestone — 32.85°S, 149.97°EBuechel — 51.00°N, 7.14°EWapnica — 50.55°N, 16.55°E

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The named rock units Serpulospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Serpulospira and its relatives

Devonian

Where Serpulospira and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

869 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Serpulospira, 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

30 references

Each of the 59 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. 18 further references are not listed. 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 Serpulospira

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Serpulospira 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 itEuomphaloidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1915)