Spondylospira lewesensis

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SpondylospiraPBDB

Diet

suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida

Life habit

low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida

Motility

stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida

Vision

blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata

Environment

marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

• 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.

Where Spondylospira lewesensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic. Draw the map

• Zugmayerella koerneri6 sites
• Zugmayerella uncinata6 sites
• Lobothyris monstrifer5 sites
• Lobothyris praepunctata5 sites
• Distichophyllia norica4 sites
• Fissirhynchia fissicostata4 sites
• Astraeomorpha crassisepta3 sites
• Bivalvia3 sites
• Cassianella3 sites
• Gastropoda3 sites
• Isocrinus3 sites
• Alpinophyllia flexuosa2 sites
• Crassistella juvavica2 sites
• Crinoidea2 sites
• Distichomeandra austriaca2 sites
• Echinoidea2 sites
• Eocomoseris ramosa2 sites
• Gablonzeria profunda2 sites
• Kuhnastraea decussata2 sites
• Loboidothyris peruviensis2 sites
• Promathildia2 sites
• Pseudospondylospira perplexa2 sites
• Retiophyllia norica2 sites
• Spondylospira tricosta2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Spondylospira lewesensis, 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.

• Triassic-Jurassic articulate brachiopods from the Pucara Group, central Peru, and description of the brachidial net in the spiriferid SpondylospiraSandy, 1994 · Palaeontographica Abteilung A · journal article22
• Late Triassic cyrtinoid spiriferinacean brachiopods from western North America and their biostratigraphic and biogeographic implicationsHoover, 1991 · Bulletins of American Paleontology · serial monograph17
• Fossil locality map for the Healy A-6 quadrangle, south-central AlaskaBlodgett and Clautice, 2000 · Report of Investigations 2000-5, State of Alaska, Dept. of Natural Resources · serial monograph8
• Late Triassic brachiopods from the Luning Formation, Nevada, and their palaeobiogeographical significanceSandy and Stanley, Jr., 1993 · Palaeontology · journal article3
• New paleontological investigations of Triassic carbonate rocks in the Upper Chulitna District (Chulitna Terrane), southcentral AlaskaStanley and Yarnell, 2003 · Short Notes on Alaska Geology 2003. Professional Report of the Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Alaska · book/book chapter1
• New paleontological investigations of Upper Triassic shallow-water reef carbonates (Lewes River Group) in the Whitehorse area, YukonYarnell et al., 1999 · Yukon Exploration and Geology 1998 · book chapter1
• Upper Triassic invertebrates from the Antimonio Formation, Sonora, MexicoStanley, Jr. et al., 1994 · The Paleontological Society Memoir · journal article1

Each of the 53 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.

What may have been alongside itSpondylospira through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lees 1934)