Spirochrysalis nympha
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpirochrysalisPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 233.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Spirochrysalis nympha on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Spirochrysalis nympha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spirochrysalis nympha and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Spirochrysalis nympha and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
566 taxa- Coelostylina conica5 sites
- Cassianopsis armata4 sites
- Echinoidea4 sites
- Gervillia (Cultriopsis) angusta4 sites
- Palaeonucula4 sites
- Zygopleura arctecostata4 sites
- Zygopleura tenuis4 sites
- Atorcula canalifera3 sites
- Balanocidaris3 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Cassianella decussata3 sites
- Cidaris alata3 sites
- Coelostylina3 sites
- Coelostylina cochlea3 sites
- Coelostylina crassa3 sites
- Cultriopsis3 sites
- Dentalium simile3 sites
- Euchrysalis fusiformis3 sites
- Goniospira armata3 sites
- Hologyra expansa3 sites
- Isocrinus3 sites
- Loxonema (Anoptychia) carinata3 sites
- Plagioglypta undulata3 sites
- Promathildia subcancellata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Spirochrysalis nympha, 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
5 references- Primary collection data of Cassian Formation used for publication of Fürsich and Wendt (1977) (ref. 9188)5
- Beiträge zur Geognosie und Petrefacten-Kunde des südöstlichen Tirols vorzüglich der Schichten von St. Cassian2
- Biostratinomy and palaeoecology of the Cassian Formation (Triassic) of the Southern Alps1
- Gasteropodi Ladinici nei calcari di Punta Bianca (Golfa di La Spezia)1
- Die Gastropoden der Schichten von St. Cassian der südalpinen Trias. III. Theil1
Each of the 10 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. 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 content0
No picture of Spirochrysalis nympha was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Spirochrysalis nympha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spirochrysalis nympha 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 itSpirochrysalis through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Münster 1841)