Spinatrypa hystrix

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
- SpinatrypaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Spinatrypa hystrix 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
13 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
6 formations
- Chemung Formation6
- Lime Creek Formation3
- Gardeau Formation · West Falls Group1
- Glen Aubrey Formation · Sonyea Group1
- Milwaukee Formation1
- Wadleigh Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Spinatrypa hystrix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spinatrypa hystrix and its relatives
DevonianWhere Spinatrypa hystrix and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Cupularostrum contracta3 sites
- Ambocoelia2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Cranaena2 sites
- Cyrtospirifer2 sites
- Douvillina2 sites
- Douvillina arcuata2 sites
- Leiorhynchus2 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta2 sites
- Schizophoria2 sites
- Schizophoria (Schizophoria) impressa2 sites
- Spinatrypa spinosa2 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)2 sites
- Tylothyris mesacostalis2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Bohemicardia bohemica1 site
- Calceola sandalina1 site
- Cariniferella1 site
- Cherubicornea amalthea1 site
- Conocardium1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyathophyllum1 site
- Cyphaspis1 site
- Cypricardinia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Spinatrypa hystrix, 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- Using GIS to unlock the interactions between biogeography, environment, and evolution in middle and Late Devonian brachiopods and bivalves12
- Notes on the Paleozoic faunas and stratigraphy of southeastern Alaska1
Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Spinatrypa hystrix
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Spinatrypa hystrix 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 itSpinatrypa through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1848)