Aperispirifer ovalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AperispiriferPBDB
- 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 most 2.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Aperispirifer ovalis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
16 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Aperispirifer ovalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aperispirifer ovalis and its relatives
PermianWhere Aperispirifer ovalis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Tomiopsis confusus12 sites
- Echinalosia maxwelli10 sites
- Paucispinauria concava8 sites
- Volsellina ornatissima5 sites
- Fusispirifer4 sites
- Magniplicatina perflecta4 sites
- Aphanaia2 sites
- Cyrtella nobilis2 sites
- Echinalosia robusta2 sites
- Etheripecten latus2 sites
- Paucispinauria paucispinosa2 sites
- Stenopora tasmaniensis2 sites
- Striochondria2 sites
- Crockfordia multinodata1 site
- Fenestella1 site
- Penniretepora1 site
- Penniretepora triporosa1 site
- Peruvispira1 site
- Polyporella1 site
- Ptylopora1 site
- Rectifenestella expansa1 site
- Rectifenestella granulifera1 site
- Shulgapora magnafenestrata1 site
- Stenopora ovata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Aperispirifer ovalis, 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- Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia13
- Late Palaeozoic Brachiopoda (Athyrida, Spiriferida and Terebratulida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, east Australia3
Each of the 16 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Aperispirifer ovalis 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 Aperispirifer ovalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aperispirifer ovalis 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.
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What may have been alongside itAperispirifer through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waterhouse 1987