Spirigerina

Spirigerina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpirigerininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 20 of 169 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 90 of 169 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 59 of 169 occurrencesDevonian460–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–447 Mya — about 6 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 7 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 10 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 18 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 7 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 3 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 3 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 11 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 7 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 8 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 19 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 7 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 11 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 16 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 15 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 12 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences399–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–391 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449.5 Mya393.47 Mya460 Mya387 Mya

169 occurrences of Spirigerina on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

169 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

71 formations

Solvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 59.86°N, 10.56°ESolvik — 59.85°N, 10.47°EWhite Head — 48.83°N, 64.48°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 46.18°N, 59.82°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EHemse Beds — 57.32°N, 18.70°EHemse Beds — 57.31°N, 18.37°EBeijuntang — 23.35°N, 109.33°EBeijuntang — 22.00°N, 110.00°EGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°ECape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WSundre Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ESiyak — 53.10°N, 57.43°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.52°N, 13.50°EGun River — 49.50°N, 63.00°WGun River — 49.20°N, 61.73°WLaketown Dolomite — 38.50°N, 115.00°WLaketown Dolomite — 39.25°N, 114.88°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WStuart Bay — 76.00°N, 98.00°WStuart Bay — 75.75°N, 98.37°WUpper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EUpper Visby — 57.61°N, 18.25°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHamra Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EPetropavlovsk Suite — 60.15°N, 59.96°EXiangshuyuan — 27.52°N, 108.33°EXiangshuyuan — 27.50°N, 108.23°EGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WRoad River and /or Delorme — 64.00°N, 133.00°WTyutyulen — 52.75°N, 56.97°ESauma — 61.30°N, 60.13°ESauma — 61.27°N, 60.17°EVizhay — 61.30°N, 60.13°EVizhay — 61.27°N, 60.17°EWindmill Limestone — 40.13°N, 116.40°W

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The named rock units Spirigerina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spirigerina and its relatives

Silurian

Where Spirigerina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,377 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 151 sites for Spirigerina, 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

68 references

Each of the 169 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. 56 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 Spirigerina

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. d'Orbigny 1849