Spurispirifer

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PinguispiriferinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 14 of 18 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 4 of 18 occurrencesDevonian434–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–431 Mya — about 3 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430.6 Mya399.5 Mya433.7 Mya392.7 Mya

18 occurrences of Spurispirifer 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

18 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

7 formations

Cape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.95°N, 14.22°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.52°N, 13.50°ELochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.13°ELochkow — 49.93°N, 14.18°EDisappointment Bay — 74.58°N, 97.67°W

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

Spurispirifer and its relatives

Silurian

Where Spurispirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Spurispirifer, 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

6 references

Each of the 18 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 Spurispirifer 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 Spurispirifer, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.