Spiriferoidea

Searched as Spiriferoidea indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Spiriferoidea as the accepted name.

Spiriferoidea

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpiriferidinaPBDB
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 118 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 21 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 14 of 21 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 21 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 21 occurrencesLate Triassic361–357 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences357–352 Mya — about 1 occurrence352–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence334–330 Mya — about 2 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 5 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 2 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–311 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences311–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences298–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–289 Mya — about 1 occurrence289–284 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences284–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–261 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–229 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences229–225 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences351.9 Mya233.6 Mya361 Mya225 Mya

21 occurrences of Spiriferoidea 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

11 formations

Bragdon — 40.94°N, 122.27°WBaird — 40.90°N, 122.27°WUldza — 47.10°N, 110.30°ERest Spring — 36.93°N, 118.09°WRest Spring — 36.52°N, 117.01°WTin Mountain — 36.35°N, 116.53°WCarrickaness Sandstone — 54.42°N, 6.73°WEyam Limestone — 53.18°N, 1.77°WJungle Creek — 64.98°N, 140.86°WGreat Bear Cape — 77.40°N, 87.60°WWells — 43.66°N, 111.33°WNatchez Pass — 40.64°N, 118.07°W

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The named rock units Spiriferoidea 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.

Spiriferoidea and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Spiriferoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,211 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,489 sites for Spiriferoidea, 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

13 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. 1 further reference is 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

Media content1

Picture of Spiriferoidea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Spiriferoidea 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 itSpiriferidina through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

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