Spirigerina (Eospirigerina)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpirigerinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 451 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 12 of 32 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 20 of 32 occurrencesSilurian452–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–443 Mya — about 4 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 4 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 4 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 4 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.2 Mya – 443.1 Mya451.5 Mya432.4 Mya

32 occurrences of Spirigerina (Eospirigerina) on record. 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

32 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

10 formations

Solvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 59.86°N, 10.56°ESolvik — 59.85°N, 10.47°EWhite Head — 48.83°N, 64.48°WWhite Head — 48.53°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 46.18°N, 59.82°WGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WCyrn-y-brain — 52.93°N, 3.18°WSaelabonn — 60.17°N, 10.30°EEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.00°WEl Horno — 8.60°N, 71.15°WManitoulin — 45.73°N, 81.80°WTirekhtyakh — 63.97°N, 147.15°E

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The named rock units Spirigerina (Eospirigerina) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

234 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Spirigerina (Eospirigerina), 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

14 references

Each of the 32 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. 2 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

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No picture of Spirigerina (Eospirigerina) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spirigerina (Eospirigerina), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spirigerina (Eospirigerina) 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 itSpirigerina through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boucot and Johnson 1967