Araspirifer
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AraspiriferinaePBDB
- 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 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 413.02 Mya.
6 occurrences of Araspirifer on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Araspirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Araspirifer and its relatives
SilurianWhere Araspirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Atrypa4 sites
- Atrypina4 sites
- Bleshidium4 sites
- Cyrtia4 sites
- Strophochonetes4 sites
- Decoroproetus3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Kozlenia3 sites
- Pseudoprotathyris3 sites
- Salopina3 sites
- Septatrypa3 sites
- Ananaspis fecunda2 sites
- Areostrophia2 sites
- Atrypoidea2 sites
- Aulacopleura koninckii2 sites
- Bleshidimerus irregularis2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Cadudium2 sites
- Ceratocephala2 sites
- Clorinda2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Dalejina2 sites
- Decoroproetus reussi2 sites
- Dicoelosia biloba2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Araspirifer, 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
3 references- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)4
- Bivalvia communities of Bohemian type from the Silurian and Lower Devonian carbonate facies1
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia1
Each of the 6 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 Araspirifer was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Araspirifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Araspirifer 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 itAraspiriferinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.