Acrospirifer

Acrospirifer

via iDigBio · CC0 · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrospiriferinaePBDB
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 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 141 occurrencesDevonian — about 141 of 141 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 141 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 9 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 22 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 10 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 10 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 10 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 10 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 10 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 12 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 12 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 12 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 6 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 6 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 4 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences377–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413.02 Mya382.31 Mya421 Mya358 Mya

141 occurrences of Acrospirifer on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

141 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

53 formations

Ertang — 24.10°N, 109.98°EErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EYukiang — 22.88°N, 108.87°EYukiang — 22.70°N, 109.22°EYukiang — 30.00°N, 102.00°EYujiang — 22.39°N, 107.55°EYujiang — 24.10°N, 109.98°EMcColley Canyon — 40.13°N, 116.10°WMcColley Canyon — 40.16°N, 116.06°WMcColley Canyon — 39.93°N, 116.30°WMia Le — 22.23°N, 106.18°ECano Grande — 10.50°N, 72.50°WLutitas Cocachacra — 17.10°S, 71.75°WErbslochgrauwacke — 50.98°N, 9.08°ESelscheid — 51.17°N, 7.92°ESelscheid — 51.23°N, 7.82°ESelscheid — 51.23°N, 7.97°ERabbit Hill Limestone — 40.13°N, 116.40°WRabbit Hill Limestone — 39.20°N, 116.42°WRabbit Hill Limestone — 38.92°N, 116.50°WCap Bon Ami — 48.88°N, 64.33°WOriskany Sandstone — 41.41°N, 75.66°WNagaoling — 22.39°N, 107.55°EYingtang — 24.10°N, 109.98°EYingtang — 24.07°N, 109.88°ESipai — 24.07°N, 109.88°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 32.64°S, 19.41°EShanda Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EMaecuru — 0.50°S, 52.00°WMaecuru — 2.00°S, 54.00°WBan Nguon — 21.18°N, 105.07°EGrande Greve — 48.88°N, 64.33°WDartmouth Beds — 50.32°N, 4.22°WKurrenberg — 50.00°N, 7.00°ESaxler — 50.00°N, 7.00°EEckfeld — 50.00°N, 7.00°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Acrospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acrospirifer and its relatives

Devonian

Where Acrospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

744 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Acrospirifer, 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

39 references

Each of the 141 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. 27 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Acrospirifer

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAcrospiriferinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wedekind 1926)