Spiriferinidae

Spiriferinidae

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpiriferinoideaPBDB
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 238 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 908 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 908 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 24 of 908 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 68 of 908 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 8 of 908 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 50 of 908 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 115 of 908 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 641 of 908 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 908 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 908 occurrences432–423 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences423–414 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368–358 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences358–349 Mya — about 9 occurrences349–340 Mya — about 6 occurrences340–331 Mya — about 3 occurrences331–322 Mya — about 3 occurrences322–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–303 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences303–294 Mya — about 2 occurrences294–285 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–276 Mya — about 7 occurrences276–267 Mya — about 9 occurrences267–257 Mya — about 33 occurrences257–248 Mya — about 22 occurrences248–239 Mya — about 39 occurrences239–230 Mya — about 67 occurrences230–221 Mya — about 26 occurrences221–211 Mya — about 15 occurrences211–202 Mya — about 16 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 217 occurrences193–184 Mya — about 286 occurrences184–175 Mya — about 140 occurrences175–165 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422.7 Mya184.2 Mya432 Mya156 Mya

908 occurrences of Spiriferinidae on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

908 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

136 formations

Hierlatz Limestone — 47.00°N, 15.00°EHierlatz — 47.19°N, 17.87°ETurmiel — 41.31°N, 0.81°WPadrinas — 42.39°N, 0.74°EPadrinas — 42.13°N, 1.76°EPadrinas — 42.22°N, 1.50°EPadrinas — 42.18°N, 1.42°EPadrinas — 42.39°N, 0.61°EPadrinas — 42.03°N, 0.81°EPadrinas — 41.89°N, 0.88°EPadrinas — 41.91°N, 0.96°EPadrinas — 42.05°N, 0.66°EPadrinas — 42.45°N, 0.50°EPisznicei Mészko — 47.20°N, 17.90°EPisznicei Mészko — 47.66°N, 18.47°EPisznicei Mészko — 47.44°N, 18.31°EPisznicei Mészko — 47.45°N, 18.29°EPisznicei Mészko — 47.64°N, 18.32°EMarrat — 24.25°N, 46.08°EMarrat — 23.92°N, 46.25°EMarrat — 24.50°N, 46.17°EMarrat — 23.94°N, 46.18°EMarrat — 24.47°N, 45.97°EMarrat — 24.16°N, 45.39°EMarrat — 23.92°N, 46.03°ESão Gião — 40.06°N, 8.46°WWargal — 32.57°N, 72.41°EWargal — 32.52°N, 72.30°EWargal — 32.47°N, 72.12°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.97°EWargal — 32.50°N, 71.93°EWargal — 32.63°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.72°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.70°N, 71.65°EWargal — 32.23°N, 71.05°EPisznice — 47.00°N, 18.00°EZegri — 38.37°N, 0.92°WZegri — 38.30°N, 0.83°WZegri — 38.27°N, 0.92°WWetterstein Limestone — 47.00°N, 15.00°EBarahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WIsztimér Limestone — 47.19°N, 17.87°ENevian — 43.21°N, 2.92°ENevian — 43.05°N, 2.78°ENevian — 43.15°N, 2.90°ENevian — 42.91°N, 2.79°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.47°N, 12.07°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.65°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EAmb — 32.57°N, 72.41°EAmb — 32.50°N, 71.93°EAmb — 32.63°N, 71.75°EAmb — 32.70°N, 71.68°EIsztiméri Mészko — 47.16°N, 17.79°EPisznice Limestone — 47.20°N, 17.89°EKaibab — 34.44°N, 111.28°WKaibab — 35.40°N, 112.96°WKaibab — 36.19°N, 112.36°WKaibab — 36.16°N, 112.71°WSiniais Limestone — 39.60°N, 20.71°ESiniais Limestone — 38.40°N, 20.67°ESiniais Limestone — 39.70°N, 19.80°EGavilan — 38.37°N, 0.92°WGavilan — 38.30°N, 0.83°WCorniola — 41.96°N, 12.80°EPark City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WSchnoll — 47.00°N, 13.00°E

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The named rock units Spiriferinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 112 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 408 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spiriferinidae and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Spiriferinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,605 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 645 sites for Spiriferinidae, 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

176 references

Each of the 908 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. 164 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 Spiriferinidae

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spiriferinidae 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 itSpiriferinoidea through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Davidson 1884