Costiferina spiralis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CostiferinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 57 occurrencesPermian — about 57 of 57 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 57 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 23 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 24 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–259 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences293.52 Mya254.14 Mya299.8 Mya251 Mya

57 occurrences of Costiferina spiralis 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

57 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

6 formations

Amb — 32.51°N, 71.93°EAmb — 32.55°N, 71.78°EAmb — 32.40°N, 72.15°EAmb — 32.65°N, 72.58°EAmb — 32.57°N, 72.41°EAmb — 32.63°N, 71.75°EAmb — 32.75°N, 71.71°EAmb — 32.72°N, 71.75°EAmb — 32.70°N, 71.68°EAmb — 32.26°N, 71.15°EAmb — 32.60°N, 72.63°EAmb — 32.62°N, 72.78°EAmb — 32.74°N, 71.64°EAmb — 32.42°N, 71.27°EZewan — 34.04°N, 74.91°EZewan — 33.98°N, 74.99°EKanokura — 39.00°N, 141.53°EShaksgam — 35.78°N, 76.82°EDolzanova Soteska — 46.38°N, 14.33°ESisophon — 13.00°N, 103.00°E

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The named rock units Costiferina spiralis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Costiferina spiralis and its relatives

Permian

Where Costiferina spiralis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

318 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Costiferina spiralis, 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

10 references

Each of the 57 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 Costiferina spiralis 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 Costiferina spiralis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Costiferina spiralis 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 itCostiferina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1884)