Pterospirifer

Pterospirifer

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterospiriferinaePBDB
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 least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 69 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 67 of 69 occurrencesPermian325–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences301–298 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–286 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 1 occurrence272–270 Mya — about 1 occurrence270–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–265 Mya — about 9 occurrences265–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 19 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 20 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 9 occurrences298.9 Mya259.857 Mya325 Mya253 Mya

69 occurrences of Pterospirifer 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

69 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

24 formations

Ford — 54.88°N, 1.39°WFord — 54.63°N, 1.72°WNaujoji Akmené — 54.55°N, 22.80°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.65°N, 22.75°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.75°N, 22.50°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.48°N, 24.62°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.67°N, 24.25°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.25°N, 25.62°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.25°N, 22.27°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.42°N, 22.78°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.45°N, 25.42°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.08°N, 22.75°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.37°N, 25.50°EWegener Halvo — 74.15°N, 20.74°WWegener Halvo — 71.61°N, 22.37°WWegener Halvo — 71.43°N, 24.55°WWegener Halvo — 72.10°N, 23.90°WTakhandit — 65.18°N, 141.70°WZechstein — 50.65°N, 11.48°EZechstein — 50.90°N, 10.45°EZechstein — 50.89°N, 12.16°EZechstein — 50.91°N, 12.11°EAmb — 32.51°N, 71.93°EAmb — 32.50°N, 72.20°EZechstein — 50.85°N, 20.39°EZechstein — 51.17°N, 15.76°EKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°ENaujoji Akmené Suite — 54.50°N, 25.13°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.42°N, 22.17°EAssistance — 76.96°N, 95.36°WTumenling — 45.50°N, 127.00°EBurgali — 67.20°N, 153.00°EMcGregor Creek — 50.67°N, 120.07°WMalbina — 42.75°S, 147.18°ESijiashan — 46.85°N, 122.15°ESaginaw Bay — 56.92°N, 134.22°WPybus — 56.92°N, 134.21°WMount Greene — 56.10°N, 123.05°WEnstone Park — 41.56°S, 148.18°EDegerböls — 81.06°N, 85.68°WTakhandit — 67.70°N, 136.25°WMaping — 24.70°N, 105.22°ETakakurayama — 37.13°N, 140.92°E

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The named rock units Pterospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterospirifer and its relatives

Permian

Where Pterospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

497 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Pterospirifer, 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

30 references

Each of the 69 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. 18 further references are not listed. 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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Picture of Pterospirifer

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No 3D scan of Pterospirifer 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. Dunbar 1955