Spiriferella nepalensis
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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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Spiriferella nepalensis 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
9 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Spiriferella nepalensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spiriferella nepalensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Spiriferella nepalensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Betaneospirifer neomarcoui4 sites
- Taeniothaerus qubuensis4 sites
- Chonetinella unisulcata3 sites
- Neospirifer (Quadrospira) tibetensis3 sites
- Retimarginifera sheni3 sites
- Costiferina indica2 sites
- Demonedys2 sites
- Derbyia grandis2 sites
- Echinalosia zaga2 sites
- Etherilosia convexa2 sites
- Fusispirifer jini2 sites
- Fusispirifer marcouiformis2 sites
- Lazarevonia arcuata2 sites
- Megasteges nepalensis2 sites
- Spirifer deroissyi2 sites
- Spiriferella rajah2 sites
- Spiriferellina2 sites
- Sulcirugaria tibetensis2 sites
- Anidanthus1 site
- Anidanthus fusiformis1 site
- Betaneospirifer ambiensis1 site
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis1 site
- Bicamella timorensis1 site
- Bullarina striata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Spiriferella nepalensis, 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
2 references- Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopods from the Qubuerga Formation at the Qubu section in the Mt. Qomolangma region, southern Tibet (Xizang), China7
- Brachiopods from the Permian-Triassic boundary beds at the Selong Xishan section, Xizang (Tibet), China2
Each of the 9 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 Spiriferella nepalensis 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 Spiriferella nepalensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiriferella nepalensis 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. Legrand-Blain 1976