Spiriferina (Mentzelia) fraasi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Spiriferina (Mentzelia)PBDB
- 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 most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Spiriferina (Mentzelia) fraasi on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
7 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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 Spiriferina (Mentzelia) fraasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spiriferina (Mentzelia) fraasi and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Spiriferina (Mentzelia) fraasi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Amphiclina amoena3 sites
- Amphiclina squamula3 sites
- Anisactinella quadriplecta3 sites
- Camerothyris3 sites
- Caucasorhynchia altaplecta3 sites
- Diplospirella wissmanni3 sites
- Koninckella fastigata3 sites
- Koninckella triadica3 sites
- Koninckina leonhardi3 sites
- Lobothyris praepunctata3 sites
- Rhaetina pyriformis3 sites
- Tetractinella dyactis3 sites
- Thecospira tirolensis3 sites
- Amphiclina scitula2 sites
- Aulacothyris2 sites
- Aulacothyris zirlensis2 sites
- Balatonospira lipoldi2 sites
- Brachiobittnerella gracillima2 sites
- Cassianospira hungarica2 sites
- Cassianospira pseudolyrata2 sites
- Crania calymene2 sites
- Dioristella indistincta2 sites
- Gervillia angulata2 sites
- Hungarispira aracanga2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Spiriferina (Mentzelia) fraasi, 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- The Brachiopod Fauna of the Wetterstein Limestone of the Raxalpe (Austria)4
- Brachiopoden aus der Trias des Bakonyer Waldes [Brachiopods from the Triassic of the Bakony Forest]2
- Carnian brachiopods of Hungary1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Spiriferina (Mentzelia) fraasi 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 Spiriferina (Mentzelia) fraasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiriferina (Mentzelia) fraasi 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 itSpiriferina (Mentzelia) through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bittner 1890