Spinachitina
No picture of Spinachitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Spinachitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhizopodeaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 440.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.9 Mya to 438.8 Mya.
9 occurrences of Spinachitina 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician56%
- Silurian44%
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
6 formations
- Saarde Formation3
- Ellis Bay Formation2
- Hulderstad Formation1
- Korgessaare Formation1
- Moe Formation1
- Remte Formation1
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The named rock units Spinachitina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spinachitina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Spinachitina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Conochitina6 sites
- Belonechitina4 sites
- Cyathochitina4 sites
- Decoriconus4 sites
- Panderodus4 sites
- Ancyrochitina3 sites
- Atraktoprion3 sites
- Dapsilodus3 sites
- Lagenochitina3 sites
- Mochtyella cristata3 sites
- Oenonites3 sites
- Oulodus3 sites
- Pistoprion3 sites
- Pteropelta3 sites
- Rhabdochitina3 sites
- Rhytiprion3 sites
- Tanuchitina3 sites
- Tetraprion3 sites
- Xanioprion3 sites
- Angochitina2 sites
- Desmochitina2 sites
- Distomodus2 sites
- Glyptorthis plana2 sites
- Hulterstadia cor2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Spinachitina, 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- Hulterstad brachiopods and associated faunas in the Vormsi Stage (Upper Ordovician, Katian) of the Lelle core, Central Estonia3
- Correlation of lower–middle Llandovery sections in central and southern Estonia and sedimentation cycles of lime muds3
- Chitinozoan biostratigraphy of a new Upper Ordovician stratigraphic framework for Anticosti Island, Canada2
- Integrated biostratigraphy of the lower Silurian of the Aizpute-41 core, Latvia1
Each of the 9 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 Spinachitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Spinachitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Spinachitina 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 itRhizopodea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.