Spiriferella sinica
No picture of Spiriferella sinica 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 sinica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Spiriferella sinica 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
8 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Spiriferella sinica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spiriferella sinica and its relatives
PermianWhere Spiriferella sinica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Neospirifer (Quadrospira) tibetensis5 sites
- Retimarginifera xizangensis5 sites
- Spiriferella rajah5 sites
- Arcullina qubuensis4 sites
- Gruntea grunti4 sites
- Chonetella semicostata3 sites
- Costiferina indica3 sites
- Echinauris opuntia3 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) regularis3 sites
- Trigonotreta lightjacki3 sites
- Biplatyconcha grandis2 sites
- Bullarina striata2 sites
- Cleiothyridina ovalis2 sites
- Fistulotrypa nyalamensis2 sites
- Nakimusiella selongensis2 sites
- Orthotetoidea2 sites
- Spiriferellina2 sites
- Taeniothaerus densipustulatus2 sites
- Anidanthus fusiformis1 site
- Aulosteges dalhousi1 site
- Aulosteges transversa1 site
- Betaneospirifer shii1 site
- Capillomesolobus lissarensis1 site
- Chonetinella unisulcata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Spiriferella sinica, 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
3 references- Permian brachiopods from the Selong Xishan Section, Xizang (Tibet), China. Part 1: Stratigraphy, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida4
- Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopod faunas from the Qubuerga Formation at Tulong and Kujianla in the Mt. Everest area of southern Tibet, China2
- Late Paleozoic brachiopods from the Mount Jolmo Lungma region2
Each of the 8 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. 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 sinica 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 sinica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiriferella sinica 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. Zhang 1976