Goniatites spirifer
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GoniatitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Goniatites spirifer on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Goniatites spirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Goniatites spirifer and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Goniatites spirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Amusium (Pseudamussium)1 site
- Brachycycloceras1 site
- Bucanopsis hibernicus1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Dictyoclostus1 site
- Euomphalus1 site
- Euphemites1 site
- Glabrocingulum1 site
- Goniatites concentricus1 site
- Goniatites falcatus1 site
- Goniatites striatus1 site
- Goniatites warslowensis1 site
- Martinia glabra1 site
- Muensteroceras1 site
- Nuculopsis girtyi1 site
- Palaeoneilo1 site
- Posidonia becheri1 site
- Soleniscus1 site
- Spirifer1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Goniatites spirifer, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Late Viséan (Mississippian) ammonoids (Cephalopoda) from the Central Moroccan Meseta2
- The upper Visean and Namurian Shales of the Doagh Outlier, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland1
Each of the 3 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 Goniatites spirifer 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 Goniatites spirifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Goniatites spirifer 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 itGoniatites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1850