Spiroraphe cryptata
No picture of Spiroraphe cryptata 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 Spiroraphe cryptata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiroraphePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 438.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Spiroraphe cryptata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
- Jupiter Formation · Anticosti Group5
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The named rock units Spiroraphe cryptata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spiroraphe cryptata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Spiroraphe cryptata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Joviatrypa brabyla3 sites
- Pentamerus palaformis3 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
- Triplesia2 sites
- Clorinda tumidula1 site
- Dalejina hybrida1 site
- Elrodoceras blakei1 site
- Glyptorthis1 site
- Hormotoma funata1 site
- Jupiterella eumorpha1 site
- Kionoceras virgatum1 site
- Levenea rica1 site
- Microcardinalia (Dauphinella) melissa1 site
- Phanerotrema communis1 site
- Phanerotrema lindstroemi1 site
- Pionodema hypermeca1 site
- Platyostoma humile1 site
- Platyostoma niagarensis1 site
- Rhabdostropha quinquecincta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Spiroraphe cryptata, 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- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)4
- Geology of Anticosti Island1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Spiroraphe cryptata 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 Spiroraphe cryptata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiroraphe cryptata 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 itSpiroraphe through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1866)