Pseudospondylospira perplexa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudospondylospiraPBDB
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 most 22 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 10 of 10 occurrencesLate Triassic228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences226–226 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227.8 Mya205.2 Mya

10 occurrences of Pseudospondylospira perplexa on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

10 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

4 formations

Cornwallis — 56.43°N, 133.87°WCornwallis — 56.88°N, 134.07°WCornwallis — 56.87°N, 134.02°WCornwallis — 56.92°N, 134.17°WMartin Bridge — 45.10°N, 116.78°WHound Island Volcanics — 56.85°N, 133.98°WOsobb — 40.67°N, 116.85°W

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The named rock units Pseudospondylospira perplexa 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.

Pseudospondylospira perplexa and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Pseudospondylospira perplexa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pseudospondylospira perplexa, 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

1 reference

Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Pseudospondylospira perplexa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudospondylospira perplexa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Hoover 1991