Spirifer rockymontanus

Spirifer rockymontanus

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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 least 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 312.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 18 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 19 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 19 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 2 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–315 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 5 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 5 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 3 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318.6 Mya – 312.8 Mya325 Mya250 Mya

19 occurrences of Spirifer rockymontanus 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

19 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

10 formations

Cabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 37.82°N, 91.56°WVanport — 40.89°N, 80.34°WVanport — 40.99°N, 80.33°WVanport — 40.82°N, 79.52°WGarcia — 33.20°N, 107.32°WWhiskey Canyon Limestone — 33.20°N, 107.32°WCherokee Shale — 37.24°N, 94.80°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°WBurgner — 38.33°N, 92.60°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°WBreathitt — 37.63°N, 82.65°WMcCoy — 39.89°N, 105.84°W

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The named rock units Spirifer rockymontanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spirifer rockymontanus and its relatives

Carboniferous

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

Found in the same rock

160 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Spirifer rockymontanus, 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

10 references

Each of the 19 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 rockymontanus

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No 3D scan of Spirifer rockymontanus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marcou 1858