Eospiriferina

No picture of Eospiriferina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eospiriferina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AdolfiinaePBDB
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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Devonian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesDevonian414–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410.62 Mya393.47 Mya413.5 Mya387.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Eospiriferina 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

5 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

3 formations

Yingtang — 24.10°N, 109.98°EYingtang — 24.07°N, 109.88°ETabberabbera — 37.58°S, 147.38°ETabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.38°EYintang — 24.10°N, 109.98°E

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

Eospiriferina and its relatives

Devonian

Where Eospiriferina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

71 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Eospiriferina, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Eospiriferina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eospiriferina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itAdolfiinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

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