Retispira incerta
No picture of Retispira incerta 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 Retispira incerta, 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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Retispira incerta 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
5 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.
Retispira incerta and its relatives
PermianWhere Retispira incerta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Fusichonetes soochowensis4 sites
- Neochonetes (Huangichonetes) substrophomenoides3 sites
- Permocalculus3 sites
- Alula2 sites
- Araxathyris sinensis2 sites
- Aviculopecten2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Ensipteria2 sites
- Guizhoupecten2 sites
- Guizhoupecten regularis2 sites
- Guizhouspira gibbicircella2 sites
- Haydenella elongata2 sites
- Leptodus deminutus2 sites
- Leptodus nobilis2 sites
- Meekella arakeljani2 sites
- Meekella kueichowensis2 sites
- Nankinella2 sites
- Naticopsis planapicula2 sites
- Neodiscus2 sites
- Oldhamina anshunensis2 sites
- Orthothetina ruber2 sites
- Palaeolima2 sites
- Parallelodon striatus2 sites
- Peltichia zigzag2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Retispira incerta, 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 referenceEach of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Retispira incerta 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 Retispira incerta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retispira incerta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRetispira through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Loczy 1898)