Spirigerella

Spirigerella

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 156 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 9 of 934 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 934 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 922 of 934 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 934 occurrences416–411 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences411–405 Mya — about 4 occurrences405–399 Mya — about 4 occurrences399–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–344 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences344–338 Mya — about 1 occurrence338–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–327 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences299–293 Mya — about 2 occurrences293–288 Mya — about 4 occurrences288–282 Mya — about 3 occurrences282–277 Mya — about 5 occurrences277–271 Mya — about 5 occurrences271–265 Mya — about 34 occurrences265–260 Mya — about 53 occurrences260–254 Mya — about 667 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 150 occurrences410.62 Mya254.14 Mya416 Mya249 Mya

934 occurrences of Spirigerella 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

934 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

41 formations

Wargal — 32.50°N, 71.80°EWargal — 32.74°N, 71.74°EWargal — 32.21°N, 71.06°EWargal — 32.61°N, 71.76°EWargal — 32.40°N, 72.15°EWargal — 32.74°N, 71.64°EWargal — 32.50°N, 72.20°EWargal — 32.41°N, 72.10°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.97°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.40°N, 72.25°EWargal — 32.24°N, 71.15°EWargal — 32.97°N, 71.56°EWargal — 32.57°N, 72.41°EWargal — 32.52°N, 72.30°EWargal — 32.47°N, 72.12°EWargal — 32.72°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.88°N, 71.57°EWargal — 33.00°N, 71.53°EWargal — 32.26°N, 71.10°EChhidru — 32.20°N, 70.91°EChhidru — 32.24°N, 71.05°EChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.20°N, 71.06°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.15°EChhidru — 32.53°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.50°N, 72.00°EChhidru — 32.52°N, 72.11°EChhidru — 32.97°N, 71.56°EChhidru — 32.24°N, 71.15°EChhidru — 32.51°N, 71.33°EChhidru — 33.05°N, 71.46°EChhidru — 32.26°N, 70.79°EChhidru — 32.45°N, 71.95°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.10°EChhidru — 32.63°N, 71.75°EChhidru — 32.72°N, 71.75°EAmb — 32.51°N, 71.93°EAmb — 32.40°N, 72.15°EAmb — 32.60°N, 72.63°EAmb — 32.57°N, 72.41°EAmb — 32.45°N, 72.12°EAmb — 32.43°N, 72.10°EAmb — 32.47°N, 71.97°EAmb — 32.55°N, 71.83°EAmb — 32.58°N, 71.78°EAmb — 32.75°N, 71.71°EAmb — 32.72°N, 71.75°EAmb — 32.70°N, 71.68°EMaokou — 27.75°N, 106.93°EMaokou — 29.58°N, 110.11°EMaokou — 31.44°N, 109.65°EMaokou — 29.39°N, 107.60°EMaokou — 30.09°N, 106.64°EMaokou — 29.55°N, 103.43°EMaokou — 30.21°N, 106.76°EYukiang — 22.88°N, 108.87°EYukiang — 22.70°N, 109.22°EYukiang — 22.40°N, 107.50°ESenja — 29.45°N, 83.00°ESenja — 29.60°N, 83.83°ESenja — 28.68°N, 84.08°ESenja — 28.71°N, 83.94°EQixia — 28.65°N, 102.52°EQixia — 29.73°N, 108.36°EQixia — 29.45°N, 115.52°EQixia — 23.40°N, 109.53°EQixia — 30.21°N, 106.76°EWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°EWerfen — 46.29°N, 11.52°EQubuerga — 28.27°N, 86.97°EGeirud — 35.98°N, 51.62°EGeirud — 36.03°N, 51.47°EKhachik — 39.66°N, 45.22°EChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 30.09°N, 106.64°EDaluokeng — 29.40°N, 110.90°EDaluokeng — 29.41°N, 114.23°EMianwali — 32.97°N, 71.22°EPanjshah — 36.73°N, 74.77°EMaubisse — 9.27°S, 124.97°EMaubisse — 9.54°S, 124.17°ESurmaq — 31.05°N, 52.88°ESurmaq — 30.90°N, 53.22°EThitsipin Limestone — 21.94°N, 97.82°ENagyvisnyo — 48.15°N, 20.44°EYujiang — 22.39°N, 107.55°EQuxia — 29.12°N, 88.05°ELupghar — 36.83°N, 74.50°ELashkargaz — 36.85°N, 73.35°EFeixianguan — 30.18°N, 106.81°E

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The named rock units Spirigerella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 100 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spirigerella and its relatives

Permian

Where Spirigerella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,067 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 361 sites for Spirigerella, 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

56 references

Each of the 934 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. 44 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

Media content1

Picture of Spirigerella

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Spirigerella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itSpirigerellinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1883