Spirigerella praelonga

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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.
Time the record covers
At least 5.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
128 occurrences of Spirigerella praelonga 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
128 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 praelonga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spirigerella praelonga and its relatives
PermianWhere Spirigerella praelonga and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
587 taxa- Spirigerella derbyi96 sites
- Costiferina indica76 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa62 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus62 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis55 sites
- Spirigerella grandis51 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis50 sites
- Spirigerella ovoidalis48 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi acuteplicata47 sites
- Athyrella hybrida44 sites
- Spirigerella obovata44 sites
- Spirigerella proxima44 sites
- Euphemites indicus42 sites
- Cleiothyridina capillata40 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis39 sites
- Bellerophon triangularis38 sites
- Chonetella nasuta38 sites
- Bellerophon37 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) typica35 sites
- Soleniscus avellanoides34 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) ornata33 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni32 sites
- Athyris30 sites
- Araxathyris timorensis29 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Spirigerella praelonga, 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
4 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range122
- New fossils from the Productus Limestones of the Salt Range, with notes on other species3
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 22
- Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda1
Each of the 128 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 praelonga
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.