Retispira textilis
No picture of Retispira textilis 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 textilis, 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 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 342.9 Mya and 335.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Retispira textilis 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
5 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
3 formations
- Salem Formation3
- Chainman Shale Formation1
- Mount Head Formation · Rundle Group1
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The named rock units Retispira textilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retispira textilis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Retispira textilis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Anematina proutana4 sites
- Eotrochus tenuimarginatus4 sites
- Straparollus spergenensis4 sites
- Waagenella spergenensis4 sites
- Amaurotoma leavenworthana3 sites
- Bulimorpha bulimiformis3 sites
- Diedrorynchus conalatum3 sites
- Euconospira elegantula3 sites
- Gosseletina subglobosa3 sites
- Hypergonia vermicula3 sites
- Naticopsis carleyana3 sites
- Neilsonia insculpta3 sites
- Oxyprora carinatum3 sites
- Platyzona trilineata3 sites
- Rhineoderma nodulostriata3 sites
- Rhineoderma wortheni3 sites
- Serpulospira planispira3 sites
- Stenoloron swallovana3 sites
- Straparollus quadrivolvis3 sites
- Amaurotoma subangulatum2 sites
- Bulimorpha elongata2 sites
- Euconospira conula2 sites
- Girtyspira canaliculata2 sites
- Glyphodeta terebriformis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Retispira textilis, 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
4 references- Description of new species of fossils from the Carboniferous limestones of Indiana and Illinois2
- Late Mississippian gastropods of the Chainman Shale, West-Central Utah1
- Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta1
- Untitled Contractual Obligation Memorandum1
Each 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. 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
Media content0
No picture of Retispira textilis 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 textilis, 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. (Miller 1877)