Retispira retifera
No picture of Retispira retifera 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 retifera, 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 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Retispira retifera on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
- Tabberabbera Formation · Wentworth Group2
- Taemas Formation1
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The named rock units Retispira retifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retispira retifera and its relatives
DevonianWhere Retispira retifera and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Actinopteria resplendens2 sites
- Chonetes baragwanathi2 sites
- Cladopora corrigia2 sites
- Ctenodonta placita2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Fenestella dargoensis2 sites
- Isorthis alpha2 sites
- Leptostrophia affinalata2 sites
- Nadiastrophia superba2 sites
- Philhedra acutilirata2 sites
- Septalaria longisepta2 sites
- Tentaculites exaltatus2 sites
- Thamnophyllum2 sites
- Tropidodiscus2 sites
- Actinopteria1 site
- Adolfia glypta1 site
- Asinomphalus protoni1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Auloporidae1 site
- Bascomella panis1 site
- Bassotrochus serpenteus1 site
- Bembexia1 site
- Bembexia micula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Retispira retifera, 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
2 references- The Devonian of the Mitchell and Wentworth Rivers2
- Gastropods from the Early Devonian "Receptaculites" Limestone, Taemas, New South Wales1
Each of the 3 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
Media content0
No picture of Retispira retifera 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 retifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retispira retifera 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 itRetispira through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Talent 1963)