Eospirifer

Eospirifer is a genus of extinct brachiopod in the class Rhynchonellata (Articulata) and the order Spiriferida. Their fossils occur most commonly in marine calcareous, microbialitic mudstones with extensive mudcracks or shelly packstones, generally mid-Silurian to early-Devonian in age.

Eospirifer

Gunthram 20:49, 4. Jul. 2009 (CEST) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
EospiriferinaePBDB
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 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 26 of 413 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 331 of 413 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 56 of 413 occurrencesDevonian470–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 6 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 10 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 20 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 24 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 34 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 35 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 85 occurrences431–428 Mya — about 62 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 51 occurrences425–422 Mya — about 26 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 3 occurrences420–417 Mya — about 7 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 7 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 17 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 8 occurrences409–406 Mya — about 2 occurrences406–403 Mya — about 2 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 2 occurrences400–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 2 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 3 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence458.2 Mya393.47 Mya470 Mya386 Mya

413 occurrences of Eospirifer on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

413 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

141 formations

Rochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.16°N, 77.68°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.23°N, 77.21°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WRochester — 43.26°N, 76.70°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WRochester — 43.15°N, 75.86°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.92°N, 90.92°WScotch Grove — 41.90°N, 90.60°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 92.00°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScotch Grove — 42.12°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WCanon de Caballeros — 23.77°N, 99.27°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.72°WRochester Shale — 43.22°N, 76.82°WRochester Shale — 39.65°N, 78.76°WIrondequoit — 43.18°N, 78.72°WIrondequoit — 43.20°N, 77.62°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 77.21°WIrondequoit — 43.21°N, 76.88°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WIrondequoit — 43.26°N, 76.70°WXiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°EMuch Wenlock — 53.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.03°N, 2.40°WMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.02°N, 2.57°WMuch Wenlock — 51.72°N, 2.90°WMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°WMuch Wenlock — 52.50°N, 2.08°WRacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 42.00°N, 88.00°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WChangwu — 28.73°N, 118.60°EChangwu — 28.77°N, 118.50°EChangwu — 28.71°N, 118.51°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.60°WPaprieniai — 55.25°N, 23.15°EPaprieniai — 55.20°N, 23.87°EPaprieniai — 55.67°N, 25.38°EWaldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WKulamat — 53.00°N, 57.18°EKulamat — 52.97°N, 57.02°EMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EWilliamson Shale — 43.22°N, 77.19°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EHemse Beds — 57.31°N, 18.37°EMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 49.95°N, 14.22°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°EChicotte — 49.38°N, 63.60°WChicotte — 49.27°N, 63.07°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WUpper Kaochaitien — 26.63°N, 106.80°EKuanyinchiao — 28.08°N, 106.86°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°E

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The named rock units Eospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 117 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eospirifer and its relatives

Silurian

Where Eospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,818 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 364 sites for Eospirifer, and this reads 240 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

109 references

Each of the 413 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. 97 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 Eospirifer

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert 1913