Anthracospirifer curvilateralis

Anthracospirifer curvilateralis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnthracospiriferPBDB
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 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 313.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 307 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 12 of 12 occurrencesCarboniferous331–330 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.4 Mya313.8 Mya330.8 Mya306.5 Mya

12 occurrences of Anthracospirifer curvilateralis 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

12 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

3 formations

Heath — 47.00°N, 109.28°WHeath — 47.13°N, 109.56°WHeath — 46.92°N, 109.09°WHeath — 46.67°N, 109.13°WBird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.77°WBird Spring — 34.51°N, 115.42°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°W

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

Anthracospirifer curvilateralis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Anthracospirifer curvilateralis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Anthracospirifer curvilateralis, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Anthracospirifer curvilateralis

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No 3D scan of Anthracospirifer curvilateralis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAnthracospirifer through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Easton 1962)