Arduspirifer
Searched as Arduspirifer arduennensis prolatestriatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Arduspirifer as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HysterolitinaePBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 399.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Arduspirifer 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Arduspirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arduspirifer and its relatives
DevonianWhere Arduspirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
215 taxa- Icriodus9 sites
- Pleurodictyum8 sites
- Schizophoria8 sites
- Spinocyrtia8 sites
- Euryspirifer7 sites
- Atrypa6 sites
- Leptostrophia6 sites
- Nowakia6 sites
- Polygnathus6 sites
- Rugosa6 sites
- Subcuspidella6 sites
- Brachyspirifer5 sites
- Chonetes5 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Cyrtina5 sites
- Eodevonaria5 sites
- Nuculites5 sites
- Chlupacina4 sites
- Douvillina4 sites
- Euryspirifer assimilis4 sites
- Phacops4 sites
- Rhenothyris4 sites
- Acrospirifer3 sites
- Actinopteria3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Arduspirifer, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Arduspirifer
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Arduspirifer 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 itHysterolitinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mittmeyer 1972