Spiriferalaria thescelus
No picture of Spiriferalaria thescelus 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 Spiriferalaria thescelus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiriferalariaPBDB
- 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 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Spiriferalaria thescelus 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
14 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Spiriferalaria thescelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spiriferalaria thescelus and its relatives
PermianWhere Spiriferalaria thescelus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
232 taxa- Acosarina mesoplatys13 sites
- Meekella calathica13 sites
- Megousia auriculata12 sites
- Derbyia laqueata11 sites
- Edriosteges multispinosus11 sites
- Composita crassa10 sites
- Rhamnaria tenuispinosa10 sites
- Texarina wordensis10 sites
- Neophricadothyris crassibecca9 sites
- Paucispinifera sulcata9 sites
- Cyclacantharia paucispinosa8 sites
- Derbyia cincinnata8 sites
- Hercosestria cribrosa8 sites
- Prospondylus acinetus8 sites
- Derbyia informis7 sites
- Dielasma ellipsoideum7 sites
- Echinauris7 sites
- Eolyttonia chaotica7 sites
- Holotricharina hirsuta7 sites
- Pontisia stehlii stehlii7 sites
- Reticulariina craticula7 sites
- Rhynchopora hebetata7 sites
- Stenoscisma calvatum7 sites
- Stenoscisma triquetrum7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Spiriferalaria thescelus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 14 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
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No picture of Spiriferalaria thescelus 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 Spiriferalaria thescelus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiriferalaria thescelus 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 itSpiriferalaria through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cooper and Grant 1976)