Nucleospira concinna

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NucleospiraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
44 occurrences of Nucleospira concinna 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
44 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
9 formations
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group11
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group10
- Skaneateles Formation · Hamilton Group10
- Jaycox Formation · Hamilton Group3
- Oatka Formation · Marcellus Group2
- Onondaga Formation1
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The named rock units Nucleospira concinna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nucleospira concinna and its relatives
DevonianWhere Nucleospira concinna and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
346 taxa- Eldredgeops rana26 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana22 sites
- Rhipidomella vanuxemi22 sites
- Devonochonetes scitulus21 sites
- Longispina21 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus21 sites
- Athyris spiriferoides19 sites
- Elita fimbriata19 sites
- Mediospirifer audaculus19 sites
- Cypricardinia indenta18 sites
- Greenops boothi18 sites
- Meristella18 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta16 sites
- Sulcoretepora16 sites
- Cyrtina hamiltonensis15 sites
- Platyceras14 sites
- Platyostoma lineata14 sites
- Ambocoelia umbonata13 sites
- Fenestella13 sites
- Heliophyllum halli13 sites
- Heterophrentis13 sites
- Stereolasma rectum12 sites
- Fistuliporoid indet.11 sites
- Grammatodon11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Nucleospira concinna, 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
12 references- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis22
- Regional variation and paleontology of two coral beds in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of Western New York8
- Testing for faunal stability across a regional biotic transition: quantifying stasis and variation among recurring coral-rich biofacies in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin2
- The Occurrence and Paleoecology of Echinoderm Asseblages in the Ludlowville Shales (Middle Devonian) of western Erie County, New York2
- Devonian Brachiopod Biostratigraphy of New York State2
- A contribution to the knowledge of the Devonian faunas of Colombia2
- A test of a new technique illustrating faunal dominance trends: Application to the “Trilobite Beds” interval of the Middle Devonian Wanakah Shale in western New York1
- A Faunal Study of the Beechwood Limestone (Middle Devonian); Speed, Indiana1
- Stratigraphy of the Onondaga Limestone in Central New York1
- Marcasite fauna in the Ludlowville Formation of western New York1
- Tully Formation of New York1
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York1
Each of the 44 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 Nucleospira concinna
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Nucleospira concinna 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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Everything alive alongside itNucleospira through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1843)