Spiriferellina cristata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiriferellinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 81 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
85 occurrences of Spiriferellina cristata 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
85 occurrences- Carboniferous8%
- Permian92%
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
29 formations
- Ford Formation16
- Wargal Formation9
- Wegener Halvo Formation7
- Naujoji Akmené Formation5
- Saginaw Bay Formation3
- Tumenling Formation2
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The named rock units Spiriferellina cristata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spiriferellina cristata and its relatives
PermianWhere Spiriferellina cristata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,074 taxa- Dielasma elongatum18 sites
- Pterospirifer alatus15 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus13 sites
- Parallelodon striatus13 sites
- Stenoscisma schlotheimi13 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis12 sites
- Paraspiriferina multiplicata12 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi12 sites
- Cleiothyridina pectinifera11 sites
- Dielasma11 sites
- Horridonia horrida11 sites
- Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria11 sites
- Rectifenestella retiformis11 sites
- Streptorhynchus pelargonatus11 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni10 sites
- Synocladia dubia10 sites
- Aviculopecten9 sites
- Bradyospira antrina9 sites
- Chonetes9 sites
- Costiferina indica9 sites
- Cyathocrinites ramosus9 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis9 sites
- Productus9 sites
- Richthofenia lawrenciana9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Spiriferellina cristata, 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
37 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range11
- Zechstein reef fossils and their palaeoecology7
- Permian brachiopod faunas of central east Greenland7
- The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary6
- Permskaya sistema Pribaltiki (fauna i stratigrafiya). Permian deposits of the Baltic region (stratigraphy and fauna)5
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska5
- On some new Permian fossils from the Magnesian Limestone near Sunderland3
- The Metamorphic Series of Shasta County, California3
- Monograph of the Permian fossils of England3
- Kalashnikov, 19982
- Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda2
- Die Brachiopoden aus dem oberen Perm des Bükk-Gebirges in Nordungarn2
Each of the 85 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. 25 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 Spiriferellina cristata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSpiriferellina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Schlotheim 1816)