Spiriferina rostrata

Spiriferina rostrata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpiriferinaPBDB
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 19 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 6 of 6 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193.4 Mya174.2 Mya

6 occurrences of Spiriferina rostrata on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

6 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

3 formations

Senkoy — 40.44°N, 39.52°ESiniais Limestone — 39.60°N, 20.71°EOust — 36.52°N, 10.06°E

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The named rock units Spiriferina rostrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spiriferina rostrata and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Spiriferina rostrata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Spiriferina rostrata, 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

6 references

Each of the 6 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

Media content1

Picture of Spiriferina rostrata

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSpiriferina through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zieten 1830)