Spirostylus brevior
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpirostylusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 233.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Spirostylus brevior 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
6 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Spirostylus brevior has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spirostylus brevior and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Spirostylus brevior and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
291 taxa- Coelostylina conica5 sites
- Goniospira armata5 sites
- Plagioglypta undulata5 sites
- Echinoidea4 sites
- Helenostylina convexa4 sites
- Palaeonucula strigilata4 sites
- Pseudoclanculus nodosus4 sites
- Schartia carinata3 sites
- Temnotropis fallax3 sites
- Atorcula canalifera2 sites
- Bandelastraea damon2 sites
- Bandellina cassiana2 sites
- Cheilotomona blumi2 sites
- Domerionina pralongiana2 sites
- Eucycloscala spinosa2 sites
- Eunemopsis epaphus2 sites
- Germanonautilus cassianus2 sites
- Rhaphistomella radians2 sites
- Rinaldoella beaumonti2 sites
- Schizogonium laubei2 sites
- Scleractinia2 sites
- Spirostylus subcolumnaris2 sites
- Trypanostylus triadicus2 sites
- Turbo orthostoma2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Spirostylus brevior, 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
3 references- Diversity, palaeoecology and systematics of a marine fossil assemblage from the Late Triassic Cassian Formation at Settsass Scharte, N Italy4
- Drivers of beta diversity in modern and ancient reef-associated soft-bottom environments1
- Die Gastropoden der Schichten von St. Cassian der südalpinen Trias. III. Theil1
Each of the 6 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 Spirostylus brevior was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spirostylus brevior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSpirostylus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kittl 1894)