Spiriferella scopulosus
No picture of Spiriferella scopulosus 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 scopulosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Spiriferella scopulosus 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
3 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 Spiriferella scopulosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spiriferella scopulosus and its relatives
PermianWhere Spiriferella scopulosus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
115 taxa- Cleiothyridina subexpansa3 sites
- Hemiptychina crebriplicata3 sites
- Hemiptychina inflata3 sites
- Spiriferellina nasuta3 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni3 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa3 sites
- Whitspakia problematica3 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis2 sites
- Callispirina ornata2 sites
- Cleiothyridina pectinifera2 sites
- Compressoproductus compressus2 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis2 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis2 sites
- Martinia semiplana2 sites
- Martinia warthi2 sites
- Mentzelia naliensis2 sites
- Notothyris djoulfensis2 sites
- Notothyris warthi2 sites
- Permophricodothyris indica2 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi2 sites
- Spirigerella ovoidalis2 sites
- Spirigerella praelonga2 sites
- Stenoscisma mutabilis2 sites
- Terebratuloidea davidsoni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Spiriferella scopulosus, 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 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Spiriferella scopulosus 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 scopulosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiriferella scopulosus 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. (Reed 1944)