Spiriferina bittneri

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpiriferinaPBDB
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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 7 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 5 of 7 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237 Mya205.7 Mya247.9 Mya200.5 Mya

7 occurrences of Spiriferina bittneri 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

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

4 formations

Marmolata — 46.43°N, 11.82°EMarmolata — 46.45°N, 11.87°ESandorhegy Limestone — 47.00°N, 17.90°EVeszprém Marl — 47.09°N, 17.90°ENayband — 31.15°N, 52.65°E

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The named rock units Spiriferina bittneri 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 bittneri and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Spiriferina bittneri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Spiriferina bittneri, 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

5 references

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 bittneri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 bittneri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spiriferina bittneri 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salomon 1895