Longispina mucronata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LongispinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
84 occurrences of Longispina mucronata on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
84 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group54
- Tully Formation · Tully Group15
- Onondaga Formation13
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The named rock units Longispina mucronata 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.
Longispina mucronata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Longispina mucronata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
169 taxa- Athyris spiriferoides12 sites
- Levenea lenticularis12 sites
- Coelospira camilla11 sites
- Schuchertella11 sites
- Atrypa reticularis10 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis10 sites
- Odontocephalus10 sites
- Heterophrentis9 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana9 sites
- Bryozoa8 sites
- Spirifer8 sites
- Mucrospirifer mucronatus7 sites
- Ostracoda7 sites
- Platyostoma lineata7 sites
- Spinatrypa spinosa7 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)7 sites
- Amplexiphyllum6 sites
- Atlanticocoelia acutiplicata6 sites
- Ceratopora6 sites
- Eldredgeops rana6 sites
- Megastrophia6 sites
- Meristina nasuta6 sites
- Orthoceras6 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Longispina mucronata, 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
6 references- The Dynamics of Rapid, Asynchronous Biotic Turnover in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin of New York46
- Testing for faunal stability across a regional biotic transition: quantifying stasis and variation among recurring coral-rich biofacies in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin16
- Stratigraphy of the Onondaga Limestone in Central New York12
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York7
- Devonian Brachiopod Biostratigraphy of New York State2
- Chonetacean Brachiopods of the "Pink Chonetes" Zone, Onondaga Limestone (Devonian, Eifelian), Central New York1
Each of the 84 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 Longispina mucronata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1843)