Neospirifer (Quadrospira)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeospiriferPBDB
- 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 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
55 occurrences of Neospirifer (Quadrospira) 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
55 occurrences- Permian100%
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
15 formations
- Callytharra Formation16
- Qubuerga Formation9
- Wardak Formation4
- Madeline Formation3
- Jimba Jimba Formation · Wooramel Group3
- Juripu Formation2
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The named rock units Neospirifer (Quadrospira) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neospirifer (Quadrospira) and its relatives
PermianWhere Neospirifer (Quadrospira) and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
280 taxa- Quadrospira hardmani27 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) pratti6 sites
- Spiriferella rajah6 sites
- Betaneospirifer neomarcoui5 sites
- Costiferina indica5 sites
- Gruntea grunti5 sites
- Koenigoria neoaustralis5 sites
- Retimarginifera xizangensis5 sites
- Spiriferella sinica5 sites
- Taeniothaerus qubuensis5 sites
- Arcullina qubuensis4 sites
- Chonetinella unisulcata4 sites
- Cimmeriella foordi4 sites
- Cleiothyridina4 sites
- Cleiothyridina ovalis4 sites
- Derbyia grandis4 sites
- Quadrospira plicatus4 sites
- Betaneospirifer shii3 sites
- Chonetella semicostata3 sites
- Costatumulus polliciformis3 sites
- Cyclotrypa3 sites
- Etherilosia etheridgei3 sites
- Etheripecten tenuicollis3 sites
- Linoproductus tingriensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Neospirifer (Quadrospira), 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
17 references- Neospirifer and Trigonotreta (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda) from the Permian of Western Australia19
- Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopods from the Qubuerga Formation at the Qubu section in the Mt. Qomolangma region, southern Tibet (Xizang), China6
- Permian brachiopods from the Selong Xishan Section, Xizang (Tibet), China. Part 1: Stratigraphy, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida5
- Early Permian (Sakmarian) brachiopods from southeastern Oman4
- Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopod faunas from the Qubuerga Formation at Tulong and Kujianla in the Mt. Everest area of southern Tibet, China3
- Foraminifera and their habitats within a cool-water carbonate succession following glaciation, Early Permian (Sakmarian), Western Australia2
- A Guadalupian-Lopingian (Middle to Late Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Juripu Formation in the Yarlung-Zangbo suture zone, southern Tibet, China2
- Subsurface Brachiopoda from borehole cores through the Early Permian sequence of the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: correlations with palynological biostratigraphy2
- Additional specimens of Early Permian brachiopods from the Callytharra Formation, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: new morphological data2
- Aktastinian (Early Artinskian, Early Permian) brachiopods from the Jimba Jimba Calcarenite, Wooramel Group, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia2
- New fossils from the Agglomerate Slate of Kashmir2
- Early Permian brachiopods from central and northern peninsular Thailand1
Each of the 55 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. 5 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.
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No picture of Neospirifer (Quadrospira) 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 Neospirifer (Quadrospira), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neospirifer (Quadrospira) 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.
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. (Archbold 1997)