Spirillina

Spirillina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpirillinidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 315 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 133 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 133 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 133 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 133 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 133 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 14 of 133 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 45 of 133 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 35 of 133 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 133 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 133 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 133 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 133 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 133 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 133 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 133 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 133 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences231–220 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences220–209 Mya — about 1 occurrence209–198 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences198–187 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–176 Mya — about 11 occurrences176–165 Mya — about 38 occurrences165–154 Mya — about 26 occurrences154–143 Mya — about 18 occurrences143–132 Mya — about 5 occurrences132–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences315.2 Mya11.7 ka330 Mya0 Mya

133 occurrences of Spirillina on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

133 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

26 formations

Castillo Pedroso — 43.02°N, 4.17°WDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°ESteinmühl — 47.91°N, 14.35°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°ECamino — 43.05°N, 4.07°WTuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 24.52°N, 46.41°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.78°N, 45.25°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°ESüntel — 51.90°N, 10.50°ECalcari Grigi — 45.69°N, 11.20°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°ERosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WL'Ammonitico Rosso Inférieur — 35.68°N, 0.92°WTuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 24.52°N, 46.41°EEffinger Schichten — 47.26°N, 7.52°ECanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WGlowaczów — 50.89°N, 21.66°EKhun Huai — 16.65°N, 98.65°EKlo Tho — 16.00°N, 98.87°EPu Khloe Khi — 16.00°N, 98.87°EJohns Valley — 34.46°N, 95.62°WOtaua — 35.57°S, 173.42°EDvuyakornaya — 44.98°N, 35.37°EUanei — 3.10°N, 43.65°E

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The named rock units Spirillina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spirillina and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Spirillina and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

986 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Spirillina, 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

53 references

Each of the 133 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. 41 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 Spirillina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Spirillina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1862