Gypospirifer condor

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

Gypospirifer condor

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GypospiriferPBDB
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 8.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 44 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 41 of 44 occurrencesPermian324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 4 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 5 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 5 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 5 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 7 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 7 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 4 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–287 Mya — about 1 occurrence287–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–284 Mya — about 1 occurrence284–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences298.9 Mya290.1 Mya324.2 Mya282.5 Mya

44 occurrences of Gypospirifer condor 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

44 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

8 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 — 16.32°S, 68.67°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°WLenox Hills — 30.37°N, 103.19°WLenox Hills — 30.21°N, 103.41°WGaptank — 30.36°N, 103.13°WCopacobana — 17.81°S, 66.21°WSaginaw Bay — 56.92°N, 134.24°WGreat Bear Cape — 77.36°N, 87.61°WNeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.13°W

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The named rock units Gypospirifer condor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gypospirifer condor and its relatives

Permian

Where Gypospirifer condor and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Gypospirifer condor, 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

10 references

Each of the 44 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

Media content1

Picture of Gypospirifer condor

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

No 3D scan of Gypospirifer condor 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.

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 itGypospirifer through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1842)