Fusispirifer avicula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FusispiriferPBDB
- 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 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya.
9 occurrences of Fusispirifer avicula 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
9 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Malbina Formation3
- Ferntree Formation2
- Deep Bay Formation1
- Minnie Point Formation1
- Beekeeper Formation1
- Gerringong Formation1
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The named rock units Fusispirifer avicula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fusispirifer avicula and its relatives
PermianWhere Fusispirifer avicula and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Sulciplica transversa4 sites
- Fletcherithyris parkesi3 sites
- Etheripecten leniusculus2 sites
- Myonia (Myomedia) carinata2 sites
- Ptychomphalina2 sites
- Terrakea brachythaera2 sites
- Tomiopsis (Johndearia) isbelli2 sites
- Vacunella curvata2 sites
- Aphanaia1 site
- Astartila intrepida1 site
- Cleiothyridina1 site
- Echinalosia ovalis1 site
- Etherilosia1 site
- Euryphyllum1 site
- Fletcherithyris biundata1 site
- Gilledia ulladullensis alta1 site
- Glabauria hanloni1 site
- Glendonia duodecimcostata1 site
- Maorielasma imperatum1 site
- Merismopteria macroptera1 site
- Mesopunctia minuta1 site
- Neospirifer1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Paragilledia ulladullensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Fusispirifer avicula, 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
5 references- Late Permian (late Lymingtonian = ?Kazanian) brachiopods from Tasmania4
- Faunas from the Ferntree Group of south-eastern Tasmania2
- Ufimian (early Late Permian) brachiopods from the Perth Basin, Western Australia1
- Fusispirifer (Spiriferidae, Brachiopoda) from the Permian of Australia and Afghanistan1
- Strzelecki, 18451
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Fusispirifer avicula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Fusispirifer avicula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fusispirifer avicula 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 itFusispirifer through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morris 1845)