Sphriganaria capax
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphriganariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Eudesiidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Eudesiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Eudesiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 9.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Sphriganaria capax on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
5 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
- Dhruma Formation4
- Mughanniyya Formation · Azab Group1
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The named rock units Sphriganaria capax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphriganaria capax and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Sphriganaria capax and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Arabatia bihinensis3 sites
- Daghanirhynchia angulocostata2 sites
- Eudesia (Sphriganaria) cardioides2 sites
- Eurysites rotundus2 sites
- Pycnoria magna2 sites
- Sphriganaria modesta2 sites
- Burmirhynchia athiensis1 site
- Burmirhynchia moulani1 site
- Cymatorhynchia quadriplicata1 site
- Daghanirhynchia jordanica1 site
- Daghanirhynchia macfadyeni1 site
- Daghanirhynchia rawyaensis1 site
- Daghanirhynchia susanae1 site
- Daghanirhynchia triangulata1 site
- Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata1 site
- Ectyphoria inflata1 site
- Ectyphoria sinaiensis1 site
- Eudesia (Sphriganaria) magharensis1 site
- Heteromychus1 site
- Heteromychus magnificus1 site
- Ptyctothyris quillyensis1 site
- Schizoria elongata1 site
- Sphaeroidothyris arabica1 site
- Sphaeroidothyris obesum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sphriganaria capax, 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
2 references- Jurassic brachiopods of Saudi Arabia4
- Callovian (Middle Jurassic) Sphriganaria (Brachiopoda) from the Jordan Valley (Middle East)1
Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Sphriganaria capax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sphriganaria capax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSphriganaria through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1989