Paraspiriferina billingsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaspiriferinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 2.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
50 occurrences of Paraspiriferina billingsi 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
50 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
7 formations
- Bell Canyon Formation26
- Capitan Formation19
- McGregor Creek Formation · Harper Ranch Group1
- Vidrio Formation1
- Cherry Canyon Formation1
- Delaware Mountain Formation1
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The named rock units Paraspiriferina billingsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraspiriferina billingsi and its relatives
PermianWhere Paraspiriferina billingsi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
407 taxa- Anteridocus swallovianus27 sites
- Composita affinis25 sites
- Derbyia24 sites
- Reticulariina23 sites
- Hustedia opsia22 sites
- Thamnosia capitanensis22 sites
- Heterelasma shumardianum21 sites
- Tautosia shumardiana20 sites
- Arionthia lamaria19 sites
- Sestropoma cribriferum19 sites
- Tropidelasma gregarium19 sites
- Dielasma sulcatum18 sites
- Scapharina levis18 sites
- Dielasma17 sites
- Martinia rhomboidalis17 sites
- Ombonia guadalupensis17 sites
- Sarganostega pressa17 sites
- Hustedia rupinata16 sites
- Thedusia trigonalis16 sites
- Astegosia subquadrata15 sites
- Bryorhynchus bisulcatum15 sites
- Composita emarginata15 sites
- Plectelasma guadalupense15 sites
- Scapharina rugosa15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Paraspiriferina billingsi, 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
4 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI40
- The Guadalupian fauna6
- Notice of new fossils from the Permian strata of New Mexico and Texas, collected by Dr. George G. Shumard, geologist of the United States Government expedition for obtaining water by means of artesian wells along the 32nd parallel, under the direction of Capt John Pope, US Corps Topographic Engineers3
- The Cache Creek Series of British Columbia1
Each of the 50 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
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No picture of Paraspiriferina billingsi 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 Paraspiriferina billingsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraspiriferina billingsi 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 itParaspiriferina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shumard 1858)