Spissatella trailli

Spissatella trailli

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpissatellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatellidae
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Crassatellidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatellidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 15.9 Mya.

Oligocene — about 13 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 19 occurrencesMiocene27–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23.04 Mya18.7 Mya27.8 Mya15.4 Mya

19 occurrences of Spissatella trailli 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

19 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

5 formations

Otekaike Limestone — 44.77°S, 170.55°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.99°S, 170.33°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.86°S, 170.67°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°ETokama Siltstone — 44.31°S, 171.22°EWaikari — 44.11°S, 171.12°E

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

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Spissatella trailli, 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

3 references

Each of the 19 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 Spissatella trailli

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spissatella trailli 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. (Hutton 1873)