Spirigerella grandis

Spirigerella grandis

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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 156 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 9 of 106 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 106 occurrencesPermian — about 97 of 106 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 106 occurrences416–411 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences411–405 Mya — about 4 occurrences405–399 Mya — about 4 occurrences399–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences288–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–254 Mya — about 81 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 9 occurrences410.62 Mya254.14 Mya416 Mya249 Mya

106 occurrences of Spirigerella grandis 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

106 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

9 formations

Wargal — 32.74°N, 71.74°EWargal — 32.55°N, 71.78°EWargal — 32.41°N, 72.10°EWargal — 32.74°N, 71.64°EWargal — 32.61°N, 71.76°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.97°EWargal — 32.97°N, 71.56°EWargal — 32.45°N, 72.22°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.72°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.88°N, 71.57°EWargal — 33.00°N, 71.53°EWargal — 32.28°N, 71.11°EChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.53°N, 72.22°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.13°EChhidru — 32.43°N, 72.08°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.02°EChhidru — 32.45°N, 71.95°EChhidru — 32.63°N, 71.75°EChhidru — 32.72°N, 71.75°EYukiang — 22.88°N, 108.87°EYukiang — 22.70°N, 109.22°EYukiang — 22.40°N, 107.50°EMaokou — 29.58°N, 110.11°EQixia — 29.45°N, 115.52°EQixia — 30.21°N, 106.76°EYujiang — 22.39°N, 107.55°ELasaila — 29.30°N, 83.50°EDashizhai — 46.30°N, 121.30°ELianghetang — 23.35°N, 109.33°E

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The named rock units Spirigerella grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spirigerella grandis and its relatives

Permian

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

Found in the same rock

561 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Spirigerella grandis, 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

15 references

Each of the 106 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. 3 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 Spirigerella grandis

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spirigerella grandis 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. (Davidson 1862)