Costispinifera

Costispinifera

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CostispiniferiniPBDB
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 69 occurrencesPermian — about 69 of 69 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 69 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 4 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 9 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 9 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 9 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 9 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 6 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 5 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 3 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–251 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences293.52 Mya254.14 Mya299.8 Mya251 Mya

69 occurrences of Costispinifera 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

69 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

16 formations

Word — 30.40°N, 103.16°WWord — 30.38°N, 103.29°WWord — 30.33°N, 103.31°WWord — 30.23°N, 103.44°WWord — 30.29°N, 103.39°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.22°WRoad Canyon — 30.33°N, 103.30°WRoad Canyon — 30.22°N, 103.44°WGua Musang — 4.57°N, 102.00°ENosoni — 40.91°N, 122.21°WNosoni — 40.96°N, 122.21°WPalo Quemado — 26.32°N, 102.90°WPalo Quemado — 26.35°N, 102.94°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.83°WLongtan — 30.21°N, 106.76°ELongtan — 30.09°N, 106.64°EDorud — 36.01°N, 51.49°EMaokou — 30.09°N, 106.64°EMaokou — 30.21°N, 106.76°EChangxing — 30.21°N, 106.76°EChangxing — 30.09°N, 106.64°EDelaware Mountain — 31.39°N, 104.55°WLengwu — 29.92°N, 119.54°EJungle Creek — 65.29°N, 140.71°WLongyin — 24.70°N, 105.22°ECapitan — 30.30°N, 103.50°WPaso Hondo — 15.65°N, 92.04°W

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The named rock units Costispinifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Costispinifera and its relatives

Permian

Where Costispinifera and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

776 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Costispinifera, 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

12 references

Each of the 69 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 Costispinifera

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itCostispiniferini through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960