Spiriferella keilhavii

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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 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.
41 occurrences of Spiriferella keilhavii 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
41 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
15 formations
- Great Bear Cape Formation6
- Assistance Formation6
- Takhandit Formation5
- Zhesi Formation4
- Kapp Starostin Formation4
- Tahkandit Formation2
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The named rock units Spiriferella keilhavii 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.
Spiriferella keilhavii and its relatives
PermianWhere Spiriferella keilhavii and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
244 taxa- Anemonaria pseudohorrida5 sites
- Kuvelousia weyprechti5 sites
- Arctitreta kempei4 sites
- Compressoproductus corniformis4 sites
- Spiriferella saranae4 sites
- Timaniella harkeri4 sites
- Archboldevia impressa3 sites
- Bruntonia granulifera3 sites
- Cancrinella koninckiana3 sites
- Echinauris3 sites
- Kochiproductus porrectus3 sites
- Neospirifer fasciger3 sites
- Rhombospirifer zhensiensis3 sites
- Rhynchopora nikitini3 sites
- Sowerbina timanica3 sites
- Stenoscisma3 sites
- Stenoscisma mutabilis3 sites
- Thamnosia3 sites
- Thamnosia arctica3 sites
- Waagenoconcha payeri3 sites
- Yakovlevia3 sites
- Yakovlevia greenlandica3 sites
- Yakovlevia mammata3 sites
- Alispiriferella lita2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Spiriferella keilhavii, 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
16 references- Systematic descriptions, paleoecology and correlations of the late Paleozoic subfamily Spiriferellinae (Brachiopoda) from the Yukon Territory and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago14
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the revised type section for the Takhandit Limestone (Permian) in east-central Alaska6
- The Permian of Mongolia4
- Palaeontological evidence for the Age of the Carboniferous and Permian rocks of central Vestspitsbergen3
- Middle Permian brachiopods from the Tumenling Formation in the Wuchang area, southern Heilongjiang, NE China, and their palaeobiogeographical implications2
- Brachiopod zonation and age of the Permian Kapp Starostin Formation (central Spitsbergen)2
- The ENS collection: a systematic study of brachiopods from the Lower Permian Vøringen Member, Kapp Starostin Formation, Spitsbergen1
- Middle Permian (Guadalupian) brachiopods from the Xiujimqinqi area, Inner Mongolia, northeast China, and their palaeobiogeographical and palaeogeographical significance1
- Kalashnikov, 19981
- Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda1
- Carboniferous and Permian stratigraphy of Axel Heiberg and western Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago1
- Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Northern Yukon Territory, Canada1
Each of the 41 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Spiriferella keilhavii
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No 3D scan of Spiriferella keilhavii 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. (von Buch 1847)