Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni

Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphaerirhynchiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 8.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 431.2 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 433.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 67 of 67 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 67 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 8 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 8 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 8 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 4 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 4 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 4 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 4 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431.2 Mya422.7 Mya434 Mya419.1 Mya

67 occurrences of Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

67 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

27 formations

Much Wenlock — 53.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.03°N, 2.40°WMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 51.72°N, 2.90°WMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°WUpper Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WLower Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EHemse Beds — 57.32°N, 18.70°ELower Leintwardine — 52.00°N, 2.00°WLower Leintwardine — 52.00°N, 3.00°WDubysa — 55.08°N, 25.42°ELeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WLeintwardine — 51.88°N, 2.23°WKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ENevezis — 55.55°N, 24.10°ENevezis — 55.22°N, 23.87°EPaprieniai — 55.67°N, 25.38°EBringewood Beds — 51.90°N, 2.08°WDrom Point — 52.13°N, 10.25°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ELilla Karlso Limestone — 57.63°N, 18.30°EIsakov Beds — 49.58°N, 23.90°ELower Elton — 52.00°N, 3.00°WRusilov — 52.00°N, 24.00°EBringewood — 51.88°N, 2.23°WUpper Flaxley Beds — 52.00°N, 2.00°WUpper Blaisdon Beds — 52.00°N, 2.00°WLower Longhope Beds — 52.00°N, 2.00°W

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The named rock units Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni and its relatives

Silurian

Where Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

543 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni, 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

25 references

Each of the 67 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. 13 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 Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Sowerby 1816)