Spiriferella wimanni
No picture of Spiriferella wimanni 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 wimanni, 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 2.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Spiriferella wimanni 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Spiriferella wimanni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spiriferella wimanni and its relatives
PermianWhere Spiriferella wimanni and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Rhombospirifer zhensiensis2 sites
- Spiriferella magna2 sites
- Spiriferella salteri2 sites
- Spiriferella saranae2 sites
- Compressoproductus corniformis1 site
- Globiella reshetovi1 site
- Kochiproductus porrectus1 site
- Marginifera gobiensis1 site
- Permophricodothyris waageni1 site
- Platyostoma indica1 site
- Productus1 site
- Spirifer1 site
- Spiriferella keilhavii1 site
- Spiriferella keilhaviiformis1 site
- Spiriferella simplex1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Spiriferella wimanni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 2 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 wimanni 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 wimanni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiriferella wimanni 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. Grabau 1931