Spiriferella arctica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiriferellaPBDB
- 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 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
15 occurrences of Spiriferella arctica 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
15 occurrences- Carboniferous13%
- Permian87%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Spiriferella arctica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spiriferella arctica and its relatives
PermianWhere Spiriferella arctica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Dielasma8 sites
- Stenoscisma margaritovi8 sites
- Megousia aagardi7 sites
- Yakovlevia mammata7 sites
- Aviculopecten5 sites
- Chaoiella gruenewaldti5 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa5 sites
- Derbyia5 sites
- Productus5 sites
- Rhynchopora nikitini5 sites
- Sowerbina timanica5 sites
- Waagenoconcha humboldti5 sites
- Zaphrenthis5 sites
- Chonetes4 sites
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus4 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus4 sites
- Paeckelmanella dieneri4 sites
- Rhynchopora geinitziana4 sites
- Squamularia4 sites
- Stenopora4 sites
- Betaneospirifer marcoui3 sites
- Cleiothyridina3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Leioclema3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Spiriferella arctica, 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- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska11
- Notes on the Paleozoic faunas and stratigraphy of southeastern Alaska2
- Geological notes and illustrations in McClintock's reminiscences of Arctic ice-travel in search of Sir John Franklin and his companions2
Each of the 15 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 content0
No picture of Spiriferella arctica 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 Spiriferella arctica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiriferella arctica 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 itSpiriferella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Haughton 1858)