Coelospira concava

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoelospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Coelospira concava 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
16 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Coelospira concava has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Coelospira concava and its relatives
DevonianWhere Coelospira concava and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Leptocoelina squamosa15 sites
- Levenea navicula15 sites
- Spinoplasia roeni14 sites
- Anoplia11 sites
- Howellella cycloptera11 sites
- Schuchertella11 sites
- Leptocoelia murphyi10 sites
- Dalejina rossi8 sites
- Leptaena fremonti8 sites
- Megakozlowskiella magnapleura8 sites
- Meristella martini8 sites
- Cyrtina7 sites
- Dalejina6 sites
- Leptostrophia inaequicostella6 sites
- Orthostrophella monitorensis6 sites
- Leptaena acuticuspidata5 sites
- Pleiopleurina anticlastica5 sites
- Stropheodonta magnacosta4 sites
- Strophochonetes4 sites
- Leptostrophia inequicostella3 sites
- Megastrophia transitans3 sites
- Meristella robertsensis3 sites
- Pseudoparazyga cooperi3 sites
- Rensselaerina3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Coelospira concava, 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- Early Devonian brachiopod biofacies of Western and Arctic North America9
- Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda6
- Coelospira concava (Hall) from the Pinetop Chert (Early Devonian), Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma1
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. 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 Coelospira concava
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- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coelospira concava 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 itCoelospira through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1857)