Spathella

No picture of Spathella 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 Spathella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ModiomorphidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 335.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 22 of 35 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 13 of 35 occurrencesCarboniferous401–398 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 3 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 4 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 3 occurrences380–377 Mya — about 3 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 3 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 3 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–361 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 2 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 3 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 3 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 1 occurrence338–335 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences330–327 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393.47 Mya335.4 Mya401 Mya322 Mya

35 occurrences of Spathella 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

35 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

19 formations

Muldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WTriangle — 42.35°N, 75.89°WTriangle — 42.46°N, 75.47°WTriangle — 42.30°N, 75.51°WTriangle — 42.26°N, 75.77°WForeknobs — 37.78°N, 80.00°WForeknobs — 39.38°N, 78.67°WMeads Creek equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WDonggangling — 24.98°N, 109.98°EErtang — 24.98°N, 109.98°EGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WSt. Louis — 41.33°N, 92.17°WPella — 41.33°N, 92.38°WMillport equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.81°N, 91.98°WGlen Aubrey — 42.31°N, 76.07°WMarar — 28.08°N, 13.00°EIdri — 27.50°N, 13.50°ECano del Oeste — 10.50°N, 72.50°WWinnipegosis — 52.92°N, 100.97°WRhinestreet — 42.09°N, 76.87°WHanover — 42.28°N, 77.18°W

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The named rock units Spathella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spathella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Spathella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

428 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Spathella, 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

14 references

Each of the 35 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. 2 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 content0

No picture of Spathella 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 Spathella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spathella 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 itModiomorphidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1885