Spirigerella fusiformis

Spirigerella fusiformis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpirigerellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 9 of 9 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–252 Mya — about 1 occurrence252–251 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences274.4 Mya254.14 Mya283.9 Mya251.3 Mya

9 occurrences of Spirigerella fusiformis 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

9 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

3 formations

Chhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.44°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.48°N, 72.33°EWargal — 32.43°N, 72.28°EQixia — 23.40°N, 109.53°E

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The named rock units Spirigerella fusiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spirigerella fusiformis and its relatives

Permian

Where Spirigerella fusiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

211 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Spirigerella fusiformis, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content1

Picture of Spirigerella fusiformis

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Spirigerella fusiformis 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 itSpirigerella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1883)