Liospiriferina
Searched as Liospiriferina alpina falloti. The Paleobiology Database treats Liospiriferina as the accepted name.
No picture of Liospiriferina 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 Liospiriferina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- QinghaispiriferininaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Liospiriferina on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
4 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Liospiriferina 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.
Liospiriferina and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Liospiriferina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
584 taxa- Linguithyris aspasia55 sites
- Lobothyris punctata53 sites
- Zeilleria mutabilis48 sites
- Apringia paolii41 sites
- Lobothyris arcta33 sites
- Securithyris adnethensis33 sites
- Quadratirhynchia attenuata32 sites
- Zeilleria quadrifida32 sites
- Apringia diptycha31 sites
- Viallithyris gozzanensis29 sites
- Aulacothyris resupinata28 sites
- Bakonyithyris pedemontana27 sites
- Calcirhynchia plicatissima27 sites
- Bakonyithyris apenninica26 sites
- Discohelix orbis25 sites
- Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa25 sites
- Zeilleria alpina25 sites
- Gryphaea (Bilobissa) sublobata23 sites
- Zeilleria23 sites
- Serpula21 sites
- Prionorhynchia greppini20 sites
- Bakonyithyris ovimontana19 sites
- Cuneirhynchia cartieri19 sites
- Antiptychina rothpletzi18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 297 sites for Liospiriferina, and this reads 240 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Liospiriferina 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 Liospiriferina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Liospiriferina 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itQinghaispiriferininae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rousselle 1977