Spiriferidae

Spiriferidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpiriferoideaPBDB
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 218 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 1854 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 1854 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 76 of 1854 occurrencesDevonian — about 313 of 1854 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1240 of 1854 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 215 of 1854 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 1854 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 1854 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 1854 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1854 occurrences546–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–522 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences522–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences510–499 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences499–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–440 Mya — about 3 occurrences440–429 Mya — about 47 occurrences429–417 Mya — about 36 occurrences417–405 Mya — about 28 occurrences405–393 Mya — about 13 occurrences393–382 Mya — about 127 occurrences382–370 Mya — about 45 occurrences370–358 Mya — about 107 occurrences358–347 Mya — about 395 occurrences347–335 Mya — about 301 occurrences335–323 Mya — about 305 occurrences323–312 Mya — about 132 occurrences312–300 Mya — about 89 occurrences300–288 Mya — about 97 occurrences288–277 Mya — about 20 occurrences277–265 Mya — about 28 occurrences265–253 Mya — about 71 occurrences253–241 Mya — about 5 occurrences241–230 Mya — about 4 occurrences230–218 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–206 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences206–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.5 Mya227.3 Mya546 Mya195 Mya

1,854 occurrences of Spiriferidae 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

1,854 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

350 formations

Banff — 57.00°N, 120.00°WBanff — 52.25°N, 117.25°WBanff — 53.08°N, 118.06°WBanff — 52.08°N, 116.43°WBanff — 53.03°N, 118.08°WBanff — 52.98°N, 117.33°WBanff — 51.80°N, 115.83°WBanff — 51.68°N, 115.83°WBanff — 51.60°N, 115.77°WBanff — 51.42°N, 115.75°WBanff — 51.25°N, 115.47°WBanff — 51.15°N, 115.55°WBanff — 51.08°N, 115.43°WBanff — 51.08°N, 115.17°WBanff — 51.05°N, 115.23°WBanff — 50.91°N, 114.85°WBangor Limestone — 34.45°N, 87.75°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WSalem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°WSalem Limestone — 37.79°N, 85.82°WSalem Limestone — 37.26°N, 85.34°WSalem Limestone — 37.43°N, 85.40°WSalem Limestone — 37.33°N, 85.50°WSalem Limestone — 37.18°N, 85.32°WSalem Limestone — 37.19°N, 85.37°WSalem Limestone — 37.55°N, 85.70°WSalem Limestone — 37.05°N, 85.05°WSalem Limestone — 38.06°N, 85.98°WSalem Limestone — 38.03°N, 86.03°WGeneseo — 42.33°N, 74.45°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.39°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 75.21°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.93°WGeneseo — 42.57°N, 76.21°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 74.78°WGeneseo — 42.57°N, 75.25°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.86°WGeneseo — 42.52°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 75.13°WGeneseo — 45.65°N, 75.39°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 75.77°WThree Forks Shale — 45.96°N, 111.54°WThree Forks Shale — 45.92°N, 111.55°WThree Forks Shale — 45.83°N, 111.64°WTin Mountain — 36.33°N, 116.52°WTin Mountain — 36.44°N, 117.63°WTin Mountain — 36.54°N, 117.04°WTin Mountain — 36.76°N, 117.48°WTin Mountain — 36.39°N, 117.43°WTin Mountain — 36.74°N, 117.45°WWatahomigi — 36.18°N, 114.04°WWatahomigi — 36.50°N, 113.60°WWatahomigi — 36.30°N, 113.80°WWatahomigi — 36.16°N, 113.80°WWatahomigi — 36.01°N, 113.84°WWatahomigi — 35.90°N, 113.56°WWatahomigi — 35.80°N, 113.60°WWatahomigi — 35.71°N, 113.38°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.30°WWatahomigi — 36.16°N, 113.17°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.04°WWatahomigi — 36.14°N, 112.89°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.70°N, 86.81°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.37°N, 86.48°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.22°N, 86.55°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.15°N, 86.37°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.03°N, 86.53°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.50°N, 86.72°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.40°N, 86.69°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.37°N, 86.62°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.10°N, 86.48°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.10°N, 86.56°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.90°N, 86.64°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.48°N, 86.30°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.83°N, 86.60°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.89°N, 86.90°WGlen Dean Limestone — 36.94°N, 84.54°WWargal — 32.50°N, 72.20°EWargal — 32.61°N, 71.76°EWargal — 32.47°N, 72.08°EWargal — 32.57°N, 72.41°EWargal — 32.52°N, 72.30°EWargal — 32.43°N, 72.28°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.88°N, 71.57°EBird Spring — 36.27°N, 115.43°WBird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.77°WBird Spring — 35.87°N, 115.37°WBird Spring — 35.95°N, 115.22°WBird Spring — 35.67°N, 115.48°WBird Spring — 35.66°N, 115.43°WBird Spring — 34.51°N, 115.42°WOnondaga — 40.48°N, 76.53°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.92°N, 78.25°WOnondaga — 42.78°N, 74.33°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WOnondaga — 42.65°N, 74.08°WLodgepole — 45.78°N, 108.50°WLodgepole — 46.96°N, 110.49°WLodgepole — 43.83°N, 111.75°WRochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.24°N, 77.17°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WRochester — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WMount Head — 50.38°N, 114.61°WMount Head — 50.48°N, 114.71°WMount Head — 50.62°N, 114.98°WRamp Creek — 39.33°N, 86.67°WRamp Creek — 39.03°N, 86.50°WRamp Creek — 39.33°N, 86.50°WRamp Creek — 39.08°N, 86.58°WRamp Creek — 38.08°N, 85.50°WHeath — 46.54°N, 110.43°WHeath — 47.00°N, 109.28°WHeath — 47.12°N, 109.55°WHeath — 46.86°N, 109.26°WHeath — 46.92°N, 109.09°WHeath — 46.79°N, 108.87°WHeath — 46.67°N, 109.13°WJungle Creek — 65.88°N, 136.15°WJungle Creek — 65.88°N, 136.15°WJungle Creek — 64.98°N, 140.86°WJungle Creek — 65.29°N, 140.71°WJungle Creek — 65.39°N, 140.70°WJungle Creek — 65.30°N, 140.76°WLodgepole Limestone — 45.90°N, 111.67°WLodgepole Limestone — 45.78°N, 111.71°WLodgepole Limestone — 45.97°N, 111.54°WLodgepole Limestone — 43.83°N, 111.75°WLodgepole Limestone — 42.63°N, 111.87°WLodgepole Limestone — 42.81°N, 111.82°WLodgepole Limestone — 42.05°N, 112.28°WLodgepole Limestone — 42.12°N, 111.41°WLodgepole Limestone — 43.66°N, 111.33°WIrondequoit — 43.18°N, 78.72°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 77.21°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WIrondequoit — 43.21°N, 76.88°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WIrondequoit — 43.26°N, 76.70°WSappington — 46.01°N, 112.54°WSappington — 46.32°N, 111.59°WSappington — 45.88°N, 111.67°WSappington — 45.91°N, 111.96°WSappington — 45.78°N, 111.73°WSappington — 45.78°N, 111.81°WSappington — 45.93°N, 111.32°WSappington — 45.89°N, 111.42°WSappington — 45.88°N, 110.96°WWoolooma — 32.50°S, 151.00°EWoolooma — 30.11°S, 150.28°EWoolooma — 32.15°S, 150.99°EHindsville — 35.91°N, 93.05°WHindsville — 36.30°N, 93.23°WHindsville — 35.94°N, 93.39°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WNamoi — 31.03°S, 150.57°ENamoi — 30.58°S, 150.60°E

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The named rock units Spiriferidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 326 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 234 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spiriferidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Spiriferidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,485 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,357 sites for Spiriferidae, and this reads 240 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

353 references

Each of the 1,854 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. 341 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

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Spiriferidae 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 itSpiriferoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1846