Spiriferellina lata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpiriferellinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 330.3 Mya and 315.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 21 of 21 occurrencesCarboniferous331–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence329–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence329–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–327 Mya — about 1 occurrence327–327 Mya — about 1 occurrence327–326 Mya — about 1 occurrence326–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–323 Mya — about 1 occurrence323–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330.8 Mya314.7 Mya

21 occurrences of Spiriferellina lata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

21 occurrences

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

Bird Spring — 36.74°N, 114.78°WBird Spring — 36.27°N, 115.43°WIndian Springs — 36.74°N, 114.78°W

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The named rock units Spiriferellina lata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Spiriferellina lata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Spiriferellina lata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Spiriferellina lata, 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

2 references

Each of the 21 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 Spiriferellina lata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spiriferellina lata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spiriferellina lata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itSpiriferellina through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lane 1963