Spinella

Spinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AdolfiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 410.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 18 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 17 of 18 occurrencesDevonian431–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 2 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 3 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 1 occurrence409–408 Mya — about 1 occurrence408–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–403 Mya — about 1 occurrence403–402 Mya — about 1 occurrence402–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–399 Mya — about 1 occurrence399–397 Mya — about 1 occurrence397–396 Mya — about 1 occurrence396–394 Mya — about 1 occurrence394–393 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426.7 Mya410.2 Mya431.5 Mya387.1 Mya

18 occurrences of Spinella 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

18 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

9 formations

Tabberabbera — 37.58°S, 147.38°ETabberabbera — 37.76°S, 147.38°EBuchan Caves Limestone — 37.50°S, 148.18°EBuchan Caves Limestone — 37.12°S, 147.83°ETaemas — 34.95°S, 148.82°EMcColley Canyon — 39.60°N, 116.26°WMcColley Canyon — 39.67°N, 116.39°WMuch Wenlock — 52.03°N, 2.40°WTaravale Mudstone — 37.50°S, 148.18°EObotanhondi — 45.55°N, 116.83°EOuan Kasa — 27.00°N, 10.00°EWee Jasper — 35.06°S, 148.64°E

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The named rock units Spinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Spinella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Spinella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Spinella, 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

8 references

Each of the 18 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 Spinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Spinella 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 itAdolfiinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Talent 1956