Punctospirifer transversus

Punctospirifer transversus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PunctospiriferPBDB
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 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 326.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 318.6 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 31 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 31 of 31 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–333 Mya — about 1 occurrence333–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–329 Mya — about 6 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 7 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 4 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–323 Mya — about 1 occurrence323–322 Mya — about 2 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 2 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 2 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences326.9 Mya – 323.4 Mya359.7 Mya317.8 Mya

31 occurrences of Punctospirifer transversus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

31 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

11 formations

Glen Dean Limestone — 38.50°N, 86.72°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.17°N, 86.57°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.10°N, 86.56°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.90°N, 86.64°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.48°N, 86.30°WGlen Dean Limestone — 37.83°N, 86.60°WGolconda — 38.66°N, 86.78°WGolconda — 37.99°N, 86.56°WGolconda — 37.93°N, 86.54°WGolconda — 37.93°N, 86.57°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.38°WWatahomigi — 36.16°N, 113.17°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.04°WHeath — 46.54°N, 110.43°WHeath — 46.67°N, 109.13°WFraileys Shale — 37.38°N, 88.48°WFraileys Shale — 37.53°N, 89.28°WFraileys Shale — 37.52°N, 88.15°WParadise — 31.93°N, 109.22°WBig Snowy — 45.75°N, 112.00°WAmsden — 45.75°N, 112.00°WCove Creek Limestone — 36.75°N, 82.25°WMonroe Canyon — 43.83°N, 111.48°WArco Hills — 43.63°N, 113.30°W

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The named rock units Punctospirifer transversus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Punctospirifer transversus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Punctospirifer transversus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

189 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Punctospirifer transversus, 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

9 references

Each of the 31 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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Picture of Punctospirifer transversus

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No 3D scan of Punctospirifer transversus 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 itPunctospirifer through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McChesney 1860)