Orthospirifer mesastrialis

Orthospirifer mesastrialis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthospiriferPBDB
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 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 104 of 104 occurrencesDevonian388–388 Mya — about 1 occurrence388–387 Mya — about 10 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 10 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 10 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 10 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 10 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 10 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 10 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 10 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 10 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 10 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388.4 Mya371.6 Mya

104 occurrences of Orthospirifer mesastrialis 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

104 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

7 formations

Geneseo — 42.33°N, 74.45°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 76.17°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 75.30°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 74.30°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.42°WGeneseo — 42.58°N, 75.16°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 74.81°WGeneseo — 42.56°N, 74.85°WGeneseo — 42.48°N, 74.61°WGeneseo — 42.38°N, 74.43°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 75.21°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 75.52°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 76.59°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 74.68°WGeneseo — 42.52°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 75.07°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.87°WTully — 42.54°N, 74.81°WTully — 42.52°N, 74.86°WTully — 42.57°N, 74.74°WTully — 42.43°N, 74.50°WTully — 42.53°N, 76.59°WTully — 42.53°N, 75.13°WTully — 42.56°N, 74.85°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.87°WMoscow — 42.43°N, 74.49°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.60°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.49°WGilboa — 42.53°N, 76.59°WRhinestreet — 42.70°N, 74.93°WBeers Hill equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WMeads Creek equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°W

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The named rock units Orthospirifer mesastrialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthospirifer mesastrialis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Orthospirifer mesastrialis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Orthospirifer mesastrialis, 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 104 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 Orthospirifer mesastrialis

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No 3D scan of Orthospirifer mesastrialis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1867)