Spirigerina marginalis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpirigerinaPBDB
- 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 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
21 occurrences of Spirigerina marginalis 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
21 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
15 formations
- Hemse Beds Formation4
- Klinteberg Beds Formation2
- Sundre Beds Formation2
- Hogklint Beds Formation1
- Hamra Beds Formation1
- Lilla Karlso Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Spirigerina marginalis 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.
Spirigerina marginalis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Spirigerina marginalis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
367 taxa- Atrypa reticularis11 sites
- Crinoidea11 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis10 sites
- Anthozoa8 sites
- Favosites8 sites
- Heliolites8 sites
- Stromatoporoidea8 sites
- Bryozoa7 sites
- Dolerorthis rustica7 sites
- Eospirifer7 sites
- Trilobita7 sites
- Acervularia6 sites
- Algae6 sites
- Atrypa6 sites
- Calymene6 sites
- Cephalopoda6 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata6 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus6 sites
- Orthoceras6 sites
- Brachiopoda5 sites
- Craniops5 sites
- Encrinurus punctatus5 sites
- Gypidula galeata5 sites
- Labechia conferta5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Spirigerina marginalis, 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
8 references- Silurian Reefs of Gotland9
- A review of Silurian brachiopods from Gotland4
- Australian communities3
- Some Wenlockian-Geddinian, chiefly brachiopod dominated communities of North America1
- Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopod and bryozoan communities of southwestern Byelorussia1
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region1
- Silurian Brachiopod communities in the section of the Vilkaviskis-129 boring1
- Aenigmastrophia, new genus, a difficult Silurian brachiopod1
Each of the 21 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. 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 marginalis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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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What may have been alongside itSpirigerina through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalman 1828)