Spanila

Spanila

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpanilidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 399.5 Mya.

Silurian — about 29 of 32 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 32 occurrencesDevonian434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 4 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 6 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 8 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 4 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430.6 Mya410.62 Mya433.6 Mya398.8 Mya

32 occurrences of Spanila on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

32 occurrences

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

5 formations

Kopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.35°EKopanina — 50.20°N, 12.48°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.37°EFluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EFluminimaggiore — 39.50°N, 8.50°EPozary — 50.00°N, 14.35°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°ECardiola — 46.60°N, 12.87°EKok — 46.61°N, 12.94°E

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The named rock units Spanila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spanila and its relatives

Silurian

Where Spanila and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Spanila, 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

5 references

Each of the 32 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 content1

Picture of Spanila

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spanila 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.

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What may have been alongside itSpanilidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1881