Cryptospirifer

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LochengiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 32 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 32 occurrencesPermian — about 30 of 32 occurrencesPermian374–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences367–363 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences363–359 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences277–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–269 Mya — about 4 occurrences269–265 Mya — about 13 occurrences265–262 Mya — about 9 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences358.86 Mya264.28 Mya374 Mya258 Mya

32 occurrences of Cryptospirifer 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

32 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

11 formations

Maokou — 29.41°N, 103.55°EMaokou — 29.68°N, 106.77°EMaokou — 29.58°N, 110.11°EMaokou — 32.31°N, 105.46°EMaokou — 29.91°N, 108.27°EMaokou — 29.05°N, 114.57°EMaokou — 30.46°N, 111.20°EMaokou — 30.09°N, 106.64°EMaokou — 29.55°N, 103.43°EMaokou — 30.21°N, 106.76°EDa'aozi — 24.89°N, 99.12°EShazipo — 25.15°N, 99.28°EShazipo — 25.08°N, 99.38°EHongguleleng — 44.50°N, 94.00°ELugu — 33.25°N, 87.49°EKhachik — 39.95°N, 44.94°EGnishik — 38.94°N, 45.50°EGnishik — 39.93°N, 44.88°ELiangshan — 24.70°N, 105.22°EAbadeh — 30.90°N, 53.21°EKamiyasse — 39.00°N, 141.52°E

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The named rock units Cryptospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptospirifer and its relatives

Permian

Where Cryptospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Cryptospirifer, 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

17 references

Each of the 32 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. 5 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 content0

No picture of Cryptospirifer 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 Cryptospirifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cryptospirifer was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLochengiinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grabau 1931