Spirifer
Searched as Spirifera (Comelicania) vultur. The Paleobiology Database treats Spirifer as the accepted name.
No picture of Spirifer 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 Spirifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiriferinaePBDB
- 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 most 5.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Spirifer 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
1 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 Spirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spirifer and its relatives
PermianWhere Spirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,418 taxa- Camarotoechia77 sites
- Fenestella59 sites
- Chonetes57 sites
- Schuchertella46 sites
- Cleiothyridina42 sites
- Syringothyris41 sites
- Dielasma38 sites
- Composita37 sites
- Crinoidea37 sites
- Platycrinites36 sites
- Platyceras32 sites
- Fistulipora30 sites
- Cyrtospirifer29 sites
- Eumetria29 sites
- Cystodictya28 sites
- Girtyella28 sites
- Punctospirifer27 sites
- Composita trinuclea26 sites
- Productella26 sites
- Rhipidomella26 sites
- Syringopora26 sites
- Polypora25 sites
- Torynifer25 sites
- Brachythyris24 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 804 sites for Spirifer, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Spirifer 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 Spirifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spirifer 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpiriferinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Phillips 1836