Spiriferella rajah
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiriferellaPBDB
- 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 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
105 occurrences of Spiriferella rajah 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
105 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
13 formations
- Senja Formation · Namlang Group32
- Nangung Formation · Namlang Group17
- Tahkandit Formation6
- Gungri Formation · Kuling Group6
- Zewan Formation4
- Productus Shales Formation4
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The named rock units Spiriferella rajah has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spiriferella rajah and its relatives
PermianWhere Spiriferella rajah and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
305 taxa- Lamnimargus himalayensis21 sites
- Marginalosia kalikotei18 sites
- Betaneospirifer ambiensis12 sites
- Retimarginifera xizangensis12 sites
- Betaneospirifer ravaniformis11 sites
- Costiferina indica11 sites
- Lazarevonia arcuata11 sites
- Gruntea grunti10 sites
- Nisalarinia nisalensis10 sites
- Megasteges nepalensis9 sites
- Arcullina qubuensis8 sites
- Bullarina striata8 sites
- Cleiothyridellina accoliformis8 sites
- Taeniothaerus densipustulatus8 sites
- Betaneospirifer shii7 sites
- Alispiriferella ordinaria6 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis6 sites
- Biplatyconcha grandis6 sites
- Bruntonia bullocki6 sites
- Chonetella semicostata6 sites
- Cleiothyridina6 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa6 sites
- Etheripecten6 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) regularis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Spiriferella rajah, 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
20 references- Permian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from north-west Nepal40
- Permian brachiopods from the Selong Xishan Section, Xizang (Tibet), China. Part 1: Stratigraphy, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida16
- Permo-Pennsylvanian brachythyrid and horridonid brachiopods from the Yukon Territory, Canada11
- Permian fossils of the Central Himalayas10
- Permian brachiopods from Pija Member, Senja Formation in Manang District of Nepal, with new brachiopod genera and species from other region6
- Late Paleozoic brachiopods from the Mount Jolmo Lungma region3
- Lower Carboniferous and Upper Permian Brachiopods from Nepal3
- Brachiopods from the Permian-Triassic boundary beds at the Selong Xishan section, Xizang (Tibet), China2
- Upper Permian brachiopod fossils from Guryul Ravine and the spur three kilometres north of Barus2
- The Anthracolithic faunae of Kashmir, Kanaur and Spiti2
- Permian and Triassic stratigraphy and fossils of the Himalaya in northern Nepal1
- Permian brachiopods from the Selong Xishan Section, Xizang (Tibet), China. Part 2: Palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological implications, Spiriferida, Athyridida and Terebratulida1
Each of the 105 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. 8 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 Spiriferella rajah was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Spiriferella rajah, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiriferella rajah 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 itSpiriferella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Salter 1865)