Spirifer macrus
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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 most 38 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Spirifer macrus 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
4 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
2 formations
- Huntersville Formation1
- Esopus Formation · Tristates Group1
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The named rock units Spirifer macrus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spirifer macrus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Spirifer macrus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Eodevonaria arcuata3 sites
- Schuchertella3 sites
- Anoplia2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Centronella2 sites
- Crassiproetus crassimarginatus2 sites
- Elita2 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis2 sites
- Megastrophia2 sites
- Pentagonia2 sites
- Spirifera varicosa2 sites
- Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa2 sites
- Acrospirifer1 site
- Aechimina sp.1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Amphigenia1 site
- Amphigenia elongata1 site
- Ancyrocrinus bulbosus1 site
- Athyris spiriferoides1 site
- Atlanticocoelia acutiplicata1 site
- Aulacophyllum1 site
- Berounella1 site
- Blothrophyllum1 site
- Bollia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Spirifer macrus, 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- Brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Rocks at Highland Mills, New York2
- Geology of the Bristol and Wallace quadrangles, Virginia1
- A Faunal Study of the Beechwood Limestone (Middle Devonian); Speed, Indiana1
Each of the 4 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
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No picture of Spirifer macrus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 macrus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpirifer through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1867