Gypospirifer

Gypospirifer is an extinct genus of articulate brachiopod fossils belonging to the family Trigonotretidae. They were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.

Gypospirifer

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeospiriferinaePBDB
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 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 20 of 106 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 86 of 106 occurrencesPermian325–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 3 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 3 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 3 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 5 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 9 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 9 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 13 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 11 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 4 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 4 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 4 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 4 occurrences281–278 Mya — about 4 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 4 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 4 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 3 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 3 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence315.2 Mya264.28 Mya325 Mya259 Mya

106 occurrences of Gypospirifer 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

106 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

23 formations

Copacabana — 17.81°S, 66.21°WCopacabana — 19.12°S, 64.70°WCopacabana — 16.22°S, 68.90°WCopacabana — 16.10°S, 69.08°WCopacabana — 15.87°S, 68.92°WCopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°WCopacabana — 16.33°S, 68.66°WHueco Canyon — 31.85°N, 104.03°WHueco Canyon — 31.85°N, 106.00°WHueco Canyon — 31.83°N, 106.09°WHueco Canyon — 31.84°N, 106.00°WHueco Canyon — 31.96°N, 106.02°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.12°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.13°WTumenling — 44.77°N, 127.29°ECerro El Arbol — 24.13°S, 69.50°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.48°N, 104.95°WBone Spring — 31.31°N, 104.88°WLenox Hills — 30.38°N, 103.19°WLenox Hills — 30.21°N, 103.41°WCerros de Cuevitas — 23.53°S, 69.96°WSkinner Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.21°WSkinner Ranch — 30.33°N, 103.24°WMoribu — 36.24°N, 137.34°ECibolo — 29.87°N, 104.30°WTakakurayama — 37.14°N, 140.92°ECopacobana — 17.81°S, 66.21°WHare Fiord — 81.13°N, 84.33°WChandalaz — 43.20°N, 131.50°EHueco — 31.88°N, 106.50°WSaginaw Bay — 56.92°N, 134.24°WNam Maholan — 15.45°N, 101.86°EMizukoshi — 32.70°N, 130.86°EGreat Bear Cape — 77.36°N, 87.61°WKanokura — 38.99°N, 141.53°ENeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.13°WCathedral Mountain — 30.31°N, 103.31°W

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The named rock units Gypospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gypospirifer and its relatives

Permian

Where Gypospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

649 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 99 sites for Gypospirifer, 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

21 references

Each of the 106 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. 9 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 Gypospirifer

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gypospirifer was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itNeospiriferinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1976