Spirifer increbescens

Spirifer increbescens

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
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 315.2 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 28 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 4 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 8 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 5 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence322–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–319 Mya — about 1 occurrence319–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–316 Mya — about 1 occurrence316–314 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences346.7 Mya323.4 Mya359.7 Mya314.3 Mya

28 occurrences of Spirifer increbescens on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

28 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

7 formations

Glen Dean Limestone — 38.37°N, 86.48°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.15°N, 86.37°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.03°N, 86.53°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.50°N, 86.72°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.40°N, 86.69°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.37°N, 86.62°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.17°N, 86.57°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.10°N, 86.56°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.90°N, 86.64°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.48°N, 86.30°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.83°N, 86.60°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.89°N, 86.90°WGlen Dean Limestone — 36.94°N, 84.54°WBird Spring — 35.87°N, 115.37°WBird Spring — 35.95°N, 115.22°WBird Spring — 35.67°N, 115.48°WBird Spring — 35.66°N, 115.43°WEtherington — 50.38°N, 114.61°WTunnel Mountain — 50.48°N, 114.71°WRest Spring — 36.93°N, 118.09°WAmsden — 45.99°N, 111.77°WMonte Cristo — 35.89°N, 115.65°W

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

Spirifer increbescens and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Spirifer increbescens and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Spirifer increbescens, 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

6 references

Each of the 28 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. 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 Spirifer increbescens

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itSpirifer through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1858