Spirigerella numismalis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpirigerellaPBDB
- 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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
31 occurrences of Spirigerella numismalis 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
31 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Spirigerella numismalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spirigerella numismalis and its relatives
PermianWhere Spirigerella numismalis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Cleiothyridina semiconcava23 sites
- Betaneospirifer marcoui17 sites
- Costiferina spiralis16 sites
- Martiniopsis subpentagonalis13 sites
- Fredericksolasma sublaevis11 sites
- Johncarteria devia11 sites
- Strophalosia (Heteralosia) tenuispina11 sites
- Marginifera (Arenaria) transversa10 sites
- Pteroplecta niger10 sites
- Echinalosia nodosa9 sites
- Athyris8 sites
- Cleiothyridina acutomarginalis7 sites
- Marginifera (Arenaria) excavata7 sites
- Derbyia buriensis6 sites
- Hemiptychina sparsiplicata6 sites
- Licharewiella plicosa6 sites
- Acosarina minuta5 sites
- Bellerophon5 sites
- Hemiptychina amygdala5 sites
- Hustedia grandicosta5 sites
- Neospirifer trimuensis4 sites
- Odontospirifer subcristatus4 sites
- Richthofenia lawrenciana4 sites
- Spirifer (Paeckelmannella) niger protracta4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Spirigerella numismalis, 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
3 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range27
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 23
- Anthracolithic fossils of the Shan States1
Each of the 31 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 Spirigerella numismalis
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Spirigerella numismalis 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 itSpirigerella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1883