Acanthospirina

No picture of Acanthospirina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Acanthospirina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GerkispiridaePBDB
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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous366–365 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358.86 Mya330.3 Mya366 Mya322.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Acanthospirina 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

3 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

2 formations

Louisiana Limestone — 39.45°N, 91.05°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°W

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

Found in the same rock

175 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Acanthospirina, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 Acanthospirina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Acanthospirina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acanthospirina 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itGerkispiridae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert and LeVene 1929