Spirellus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyanobacteriaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 525.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 516 Mya.

Cambrian — about 7 of 9 occurrencesCambrian637–633 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences633–629 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences629–625 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences625–621 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences621–617 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences617–613 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences613–609 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences609–604 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences604–600 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences600–596 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences596–592 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences592–588 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences588–584 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences584–580 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences580–576 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences576–571 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences571–567 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences567–563 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences563–559 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences559–555 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences555–551 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences551–547 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences547–542 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences542–538 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences538–534 Mya — about 2 occurrences534–530 Mya — about 2 occurrences530–526 Mya — about 1 occurrence526–522 Mya — about 2 occurrences522–518 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences518–514 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences538.8 Mya – 525.5 Mya637 Mya514 Mya

9 occurrences of Spirellus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

9 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

5 formations

Tal — 30.07°N, 78.48°ETal — 30.35°N, 78.17°ETal — 30.45°N, 78.08°EZhujiaqing — 26.28°N, 103.22°EPortfjeld — 82.23°N, 34.65°WPortfjeld — 82.24°N, 36.22°WFosters Point — 46.00°N, 60.00°WDengying — 25.52°N, 103.07°E

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The named rock units Spirellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Spirellus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Spirellus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Spirellus, 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

7 references

Each of the 9 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 Spirellus 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 Spirellus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spirellus 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 itCyanobacteria through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jiang 1982