Spinocyrtia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpinocyrtiidaePBDB
- 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 8.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 379 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
274 occurrences of Spinocyrtia 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
274 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
43 formations
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group50
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group29
- Lime Creek Formation20
- Skaneateles Formation · Hamilton Group20
- Silica Formation · Traverse Group19
- Mahantango Formation · Hamilton Group15
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The named rock units Spinocyrtia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spinocyrtia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Spinocyrtia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
912 taxa- Mucrospirifer mucronatus85 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus76 sites
- Pseudoatrypa devoniana62 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana50 sites
- Crinoidea49 sites
- Devonochonetes coronatus48 sites
- Eldredgeops rana48 sites
- Devonochonetes scitulus45 sites
- Devonochonetes44 sites
- Mediospirifer audaculus42 sites
- Athyris38 sites
- Modiomorpha37 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)37 sites
- Athyris spiriferoides36 sites
- Cyrtina hamiltonensis36 sites
- Rhipidomella vanuxemi36 sites
- Mucrospirifer35 sites
- Ambocoelia umbonata33 sites
- Paracyclas33 sites
- Productella33 sites
- Camarotoechia32 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta32 sites
- Cyrtina31 sites
- Douvillina29 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 242 sites for Spinocyrtia, and this reads 240 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
46 references- Using GIS to unlock the interactions between biogeography, environment, and evolution in middle and Late Devonian brachiopods and bivalves54
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York33
- Quantitative Analysis of Paleocommunities in the Lower Part of the Hamilton Group near Cazenovia, New York22
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis18
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mahantango Formation in south-central Pennsylvania14
- Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation10
- Korrelationen des Eifelium/Givetium-Grenzbereichs im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge9
- Community paleoecological study of the Silica Shale equivalent of northeastern Indiana9
- Regional variation and paleontology of two coral beds in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of Western New York9
- Quantitative community analysis: Recurrent group and cluster techniques applied to the fauna of the Upper Devonian Sonyea Group, New York9
- Facies and diagenesis of the Devonian Portilla Limestone Formation between the River Esla and the embalse de la Luna, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain9
- Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology8
Each of the 274 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. 34 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Spinocyrtia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itSpinocyrtiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.