Wadispirifer grandis
Searched as Neospirifer grandis. The Paleobiology Database treats Wadispirifer grandis as the accepted name.
No picture of Wadispirifer grandis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Wadispirifer grandis itself, so it was not used. 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 Wadispirifer grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Wadispirifer grandis 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
11 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
3 formations
- Hardman Formation · Liveringa Group6
- Dulgalakh Formation2
- Kharaulakh Formation1
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The named rock units Wadispirifer grandis 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.
Wadispirifer grandis and its relatives
PermianWhere Wadispirifer grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Streptorhynchus luluigui5 sites
- Tomiopsis hardmani4 sites
- Waagenoconcha imperfecta3 sites
- Cleiothyridina2 sites
- Derbyia hardmani2 sites
- Latispirifer amplissimus2 sites
- Liveringia magnifica2 sites
- Saeptathaerus reclinis2 sites
- Costiferina thomasi1 site
- Fletcherithyris hardmani1 site
- Hoskingia grandis1 site
- Hustedia1 site
- Leptodus nobilis1 site
- Megasteges septentrionalis1 site
- Neochonetes (Nongtaia) hardmani1 site
- Notolosia dickinsi1 site
- Notolosia millyiti1 site
- Stenoscisma1 site
- Streptorhynchus pelargonatus1 site
- Terebratulidae1 site
- Texacrinus hardmani1 site
- Waagenites1 site
- Waagenites stani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Wadispirifer grandis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Neospirifer and Trigonotreta (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda) from the Permian of Western Australia5
- Studies on Western Australian Permian brachiopods 8: The Late Permian brachiopod fauna of the Kirkby Range Member, Canning Basin3
- New Permian brachiopods from Verkhoyan3
Each of the 11 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 content0
No picture of Wadispirifer grandis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Wadispirifer grandis itself, so it was not used.
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 Wadispirifer grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wadispirifer grandis 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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What may have been alongside itNeospirifer through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Archbold and Thomas 1986)