Spirifer distefanii

No picture of Spirifer distefanii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Spirifer distefanii itself, so it was not used. 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 Spirifer distefanii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Permian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPermian267–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264.28 Mya259.857 Mya267.4 Mya253.6 Mya

7 occurrences of Spirifer distefanii on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

7 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.

Spirifer distefanii and its relatives

Permian

Where Spirifer distefanii and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

239 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Spirifer distefanii, 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

3 references

Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Spirifer distefanii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Spirifer distefanii itself, so it was not used.

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 Spirifer distefanii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spirifer distefanii 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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What may have been alongside itSpirifer through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gemmellaro 1899)