Angiospirifer

Angiospirifer

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
AngiospiriferinaePBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 326.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 34 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 34 of 34 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 2 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 2 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 4 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 4 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 4 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 4 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 3 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339.9 Mya326.9 Mya359.6 Mya322.7 Mya

34 occurrences of Angiospirifer on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

34 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

22 formations

Waterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WWeaver Beds — 52.80°N, 2.10°WEyam Limestone — 53.18°N, 1.77°WCauldon Low Conglomerate — 53.03°N, 1.88°WForest Hollow Beds — 52.80°N, 2.10°WShunner Fell Limestone — 54.37°N, 2.22°WHawes Limestone I — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Limestone II — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Limestone Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone IIIa — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IV — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IV Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMiddle Limestone V — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMiddle Limestone Va — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMiddle Limestone Va Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WFive Yard Limestone VI — 54.30°N, 2.15°WFive Yard Limestone VIa Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WUnderset Limestone VIII — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMain Limestone IX — 54.30°N, 2.15°WLower Limestone — 55.81°N, 4.54°WBee Low Limestones — 53.35°N, 1.80°W

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The named rock units Angiospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Angiospirifer and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Angiospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

432 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Angiospirifer, 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

9 references

Each of the 34 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 content2

Picture of Angiospirifer

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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What may have been alongside itAngiospiriferinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Legrand-Blain 1985