Brachyspirifer

Brachyspirifer

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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 least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 27 occurrencesDevonian — about 27 of 27 occurrencesDevonian421–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 1 occurrence412–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 2 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 2 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 2 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 2 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 2 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 2 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 2 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 1 occurrence393–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413.02 Mya382.31 Mya420.6 Mya371.2 Mya

27 occurrences of Brachyspirifer 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

27 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

15 formations

McColley Canyon — 39.98°N, 116.27°WMcColley Canyon — 39.60°N, 116.26°WMcColley Canyon — 39.67°N, 116.39°WGladbach — 50.00°N, 7.00°ESaxler — 50.00°N, 7.00°EEckfeld — 50.00°N, 7.00°EHunsrueck Slate — 49.87°N, 7.38°EHunsrueck Slate — 49.85°N, 7.32°EBerlé — 50.02°N, 6.13°EBerlé — 50.01°N, 6.05°ENeichnerberg — 50.00°N, 7.00°EObotanhondi — 45.55°N, 116.83°EIdjerane Sandstone — 24.58°N, 3.25°EFloresta-Labateca — 5.85°N, 72.88°WErbslochgrauwacke — 50.98°N, 9.08°ELynton Slates — 51.22°N, 3.83°WLebanza — 43.00°N, 0.92°WCastellar — 41.13°N, 1.07°WKess-Kess — 31.38°N, 4.04°W

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The named rock units Brachyspirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachyspirifer and its relatives

Devonian

Where Brachyspirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

289 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Brachyspirifer, 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

14 references

Each of the 27 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Brachyspirifer

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.