Spirelytha
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ToryniferinaePBDB
- 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 39 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
84 occurrences of Spirelytha 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
84 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
37 formations
- Callytharra Formation14
- Ol'chan Formation6
- Jungle Creek Formation6
- Singa Formation4
- Noonkanbah Formation4
- Wandagee Formation4
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The named rock units Spirelytha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spirelytha and its relatives
PermianWhere Spirelytha and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
318 taxa- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) pratti9 sites
- Sulciplica thailandica7 sites
- Bandoproductus hemiglobicus6 sites
- Cimmeriella foordi6 sites
- Kasetia kaseti6 sites
- Rhynchopora culta6 sites
- Cleiothyridina ovalis5 sites
- Costatumulus irwinensis5 sites
- Etherilosia etheridgei5 sites
- Hyperammina5 sites
- Koenigoria neoaustralis5 sites
- Sansabaina5 sites
- Spiriferellina5 sites
- Spiroplectammina5 sites
- Trochammina5 sites
- Ammodiscus4 sites
- Cancrinella cancriniformis4 sites
- Cleiothyridina4 sites
- Dielasma4 sites
- Lamniplica sapa4 sites
- Myodelthyrium dickinsi4 sites
- Spiriferella pseudodraschei4 sites
- Taeniothaerus4 sites
- Anidanthus boikowi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Spirelytha, 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
30 references- Permian Elythidae (Brachiopoda) from Western Australia28
- Abramov and Grigorieva, 19887
- Lower Permian brachiopods and molluscs from the upper Jungle Creek Formation, northern Yukon Territory, Canada6
- Foraminifera and their habitats within a cool-water carbonate succession following glaciation, Early Permian (Sakmarian), Western Australia5
- Kalashnikov et al., 19814
- Early Permian Brachiopods of Gondwana affinity from the Dingjiazhai Formation of the Baoshan Block, western Yunnan, China3
- Brachiopods of the family Elythidae from the Lower Permian of the Khabarovsk Territory3
- Lower Cisuralian brachiopod faunas from the Lhasa and South Qiangtang blocks in Tibet and their biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications2
- An Early Permian (Sakmarian) brachiopod fauna from the Sungai Itau quarry and its relationship to other Early Permian brachiopod horizons in Langkawi, Malaysia2
- Permian brachiopods from Karakorum (Pakistan). Pt. 1 (With Appendix).2
- Pavlova et al., 19912
- An Early Permian cool-water fauna from pebbly mudstones in south Thailand2
Each of the 84 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. 18 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
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No picture of Spirelytha 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 Spirelytha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spirelytha 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itToryniferinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fredericks 1924