Spiriferellidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiriferoideaPBDB
- 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 88 million years on record.
The record covers at least 342.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 351.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
1,220 occurrences of Spiriferellidae 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
1,220 occurrences- Carboniferous7%
- Permian93%
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
160 formations
- Jungle Creek Formation82
- Bell Canyon Formation69
- Word Formation63
- Senja Formation · Namlang Group54
- Wegener Halvo Formation35
- Zhesi Formation30
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The named rock units Spiriferellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 136 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 167 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spiriferellidae and its relatives
PermianWhere Spiriferellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,096 taxa- Spiriferella rajah63 sites
- Timaniella pseudocamerata23 sites
- Marginalosia kalikotei21 sites
- Spiriferella20 sites
- Spiriferella pseudodraschei20 sites
- Stenoscisma20 sites
- Betaneospirifer ravaniformis17 sites
- Cleiothyridina17 sites
- Linoproductus17 sites
- Derbyia16 sites
- Megasteges nepalensis16 sites
- Composita15 sites
- Hunzina electa15 sites
- Cruricella couria14 sites
- Tipispirifer oppilatus14 sites
- Bryozoa13 sites
- Hustedia13 sites
- Hustedia ratburiensis13 sites
- Posicomta advena13 sites
- Callispirina austrina12 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) cymatilis12 sites
- Neospirifer12 sites
- Nisalarinia nisalensis12 sites
- Arcullina oblata11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,020 sites for Spiriferellidae, 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
151 references- Systematic descriptions, paleoecology and correlations of the late Paleozoic subfamily Spiriferellinae (Brachiopoda) from the Yukon Territory and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago222
- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI150
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda86
- Permian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from north-west Nepal53
- Permian brachiopods from the Selong Xishan Section, Xizang (Tibet), China. Part 1: Stratigraphy, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida31
- Kalashnikov, 199824
- Lower Permian brachiopods and molluscs from the upper Jungle Creek Formation, northern Yukon Territory, Canada23
- Permo-Pennsylvanian brachythyrid and horridonid brachiopods from the Yukon Territory, Canada22
- Pavlova et al., 199121
- The biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Gerster Limestone (Upper Permian) in Nevada and Utah20
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the revised type section for the Takhandit Limestone (Permian) in east-central Alaska20
- Permian brachiopods from Karakorum (Pakistan). Pt. 1 (With Appendix).19
Each of the 1,220 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. 139 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 content1

Picture of Spiriferellidae
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No 3D scan of Spiriferellidae 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 itSpiriferoidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waterhouse 1968