Girtyspira alvaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GirtyspiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, carnivorePBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Meekospiridae
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Girtyspira alvaensis 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
2 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.
Girtyspira alvaensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Girtyspira alvaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Apachella capertoni2 sites
- Cyclites depressus2 sites
- Cyclobathmus haworthi2 sites
- Heteropecten vanvleeti2 sites
- Leptodesma gouldii2 sites
- Lyroschizodus oklahomensis2 sites
- Myalina2 sites
- Naticopsis transversa2 sites
- Oxyprora oklahomaense2 sites
- Permophorus albequus2 sites
- Spirorbis2 sites
- Allorisma albequus1 site
- Cibecuia gouldii1 site
- Composita mexicana1 site
- Composita subcircularis1 site
- Edmondia rotunda1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Gloverilima pratti1 site
- Leioclema dozierense1 site
- Pseudodielasma perplexa1 site
- Pseudomonotis1 site
- Schizodus ovatus1 site
- Solemya1 site
- Stenopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Girtyspira alvaensis, 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
2 references- Invertebrate fauna of the late Permian Whitehorse Sandstone1
- Invertebrate paleontology of the Upper Permian Red Beds of Oklahoma and the panhandle of Texas1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Girtyspira alvaensis 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 Girtyspira alvaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Girtyspira alvaensis 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 itGirtyspira through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Beede 1907)