Retispira exilis
No picture of Retispira exilis 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 Retispira exilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RetispiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At least 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 326.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 323.6 Mya.
11 occurrences of Retispira exilis 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
11 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
10 formations
- Wassonville Formation2
- Tsingyuan Formation1
- Hotwells Formation1
- Orlej Limestone Formation1
- Carboniferous Limestone Formation1
- Calcaire de Seilles Formation1
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The named rock units Retispira exilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retispira exilis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Retispira exilis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
223 taxa- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) costatus4 sites
- Trachydoma variata4 sites
- Cerithioides3 sites
- Donaldospira verneuiliana3 sites
- Euphemites konincki3 sites
- Euphemites urei3 sites
- Hypergonia percarinata3 sites
- Waagenella sowerbyi3 sites
- Anematina conica2 sites
- Angyomphalus penelenticulata2 sites
- Baylea tabulata2 sites
- Bellerophon hiulcus2 sites
- Bellerophon tenuifascia2 sites
- Bellerophon wrighti2 sites
- Cerithioides judiae2 sites
- Cerithioides telescopium2 sites
- Cummingella carringtonensis2 sites
- Dictyotomaria quasicapillaria2 sites
- Glyphodeta zonata2 sites
- Hesperiella thomsoni2 sites
- Hypergonia2 sites
- Hypergonia kirkbyi2 sites
- Ianthinopsis2 sites
- Meekospira peracuta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Retispira exilis, 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
6 references- The British and Belgian Carboniferous Bellerophontidae4
- Gastropods from the Lower Mississippian Wassonville Limestone in southeastern Iowa2
- The Lower Carboniferous gastropod fauna from the Hotwells Limestone of Compton Martin, Somerset. Part I2
- Gastropods of the Gilmore City Formation (Lower Mississippian) of North-Central Iowa: Part 1, Geology and Systematics of Bellerophontoidea and Euomphaloidea1
- Namurian (Lower Carboniferous) gastropod assemblages from Ningxia, China1
- Visean gastropods from Orlej near Cracow1
Each of the 11 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 Retispira exilis 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 Retispira exilis, 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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What may have been alongside itRetispira through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Koninck 1883)