Ribeiria spinosa
No picture of Ribeiria spinosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ribeiria spinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RibeiriaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
4 occurrences of Ribeiria spinosa on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Ribeiria spinosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ribeiria spinosa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ribeiria spinosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Coxiconchia2 sites
- Natasia boliviensis2 sites
- Peelerophon oehlerti2 sites
- Ampyx1 site
- Famatinolithus1 site
- Hoekaspis1 site
- Neseuretus kobayashii1 site
- Pliomeridius1 site
- Suria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ribeiria spinosa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Additional Mollusca (Bivalvia and Rostroconchia) from the Suri Formation, Early Ordovician (Arenig), western Argentina2
- Ribeiria y Tolmachovia (Mollusca, Rostroconchia) en el Ordovicico inferior de la Cordillera Oriental Argentina1
- Ribeiria, Peelrophon y otros molluscos del Ordovíco de Bolivia1
Each of the 4 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 Ribeiria spinosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Ribeiria spinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ribeiria spinosa 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 itRibeiria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Babin and Branisa 1987