Spirophyllum

Spirophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DibunophyllinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 335.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358.86 Mya335.9 Mya365.9 Mya329.6 Mya

2 occurrences of Spirophyllum 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

2 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

2 formations

Idmarrach — 33.53°N, 5.39°WManticoceras Limestone — 50.78°N, 20.55°E

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The named rock units Spirophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Spirophyllum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Spirophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Spirophyllum 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. Fedorowski 1970