Mauispirifer

Mauispirifer

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrospiriferinaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Devonian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesDevonian414–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410.62 Mya399.5 Mya413.5 Mya393 Mya

10 occurrences of Mauispirifer 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

10 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

10 formations

l'Armorique — 48.37°N, 4.37°WEckfeld — 50.00°N, 7.00°EGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EErbslochgrauwacke — 50.98°N, 9.08°ERothäuser Grauwacke — 51.52°N, 10.47°ELynton Slates — 51.22°N, 3.83°WArauz — 42.97°N, 0.87°WSanta Cruz — 41.13°N, 1.07°WBolitho Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°EAdam Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°E

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The named rock units Mauispirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mauispirifer and its relatives

Devonian

Where Mauispirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mauispirifer, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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 content2

Picture of Mauispirifer

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itAcrospiriferinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.