Spinifrons grandicosta
No picture of Spinifrons grandicosta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Spinifrons grandicosta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpinifronsPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Spinifrons grandicosta on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Spinifrons grandicosta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spinifrons grandicosta and its relatives
PermianWhere Spinifrons grandicosta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Composita pilula5 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Meekella skenoides4 sites
- Orthonema4 sites
- Anomphalus3 sites
- Apachella3 sites
- Bryozoa3 sites
- Chonetinetes varians3 sites
- Derbyia3 sites
- Derbyia auriplexa3 sites
- Fenestelloidea3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Holotricharina3 sites
- Hustedia hyporhachis3 sites
- Kinishbia3 sites
- Meekospira3 sites
- Pleurotomarioidea3 sites
- Retaria umbonata3 sites
- Rugatia intermedia3 sites
- Taosia3 sites
- Amblysiphonella2 sites
- Apachella franciscana2 sites
- Colospongia monilis2 sites
- Derbyia complicata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Spinifrons grandicosta, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Spinifrons grandicosta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Spinifrons grandicosta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spinifrons grandicosta 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 itSpinifrons through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoover 1981