Spirillinidae

Spirillina vivipara Ehrenberg, 1843, a relative of Spirillinidae — not Spirillinidae itself

Not Spirillinidae. This is Spirillina vivipara Ehrenberg, 1843, a relative — both are Spirillinidae.

narido · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
SpirillininaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 315 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 154 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 154 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 154 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 154 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 9 of 154 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 14 of 154 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 49 of 154 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 43 of 154 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 154 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 154 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 154 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 154 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 154 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 154 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 154 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 154 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–231 Mya — about 2 occurrences231–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences220–209 Mya — about 3 occurrences209–198 Mya — about 4 occurrences198–187 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–176 Mya — about 11 occurrences176–165 Mya — about 42 occurrences165–154 Mya — about 28 occurrences154–143 Mya — about 23 occurrences143–132 Mya — about 5 occurrences132–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences315.2 Mya11.7 ka330 Mya0 Mya

154 occurrences of Spirillinidae on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

154 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

32 formations

Castillo Pedroso — 43.02°N, 4.17°WDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°ESteinmühl — 47.91°N, 14.35°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°ECamino — 43.05°N, 4.07°WDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 24.52°N, 46.41°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.78°N, 45.25°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EMt. Facito — 40.48°N, 15.65°ESüntel — 51.90°N, 10.50°ECalcari Grigi — 45.69°N, 11.20°EPanormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°ERosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WL'Ammonitico Rosso Inférieur — 35.68°N, 0.92°WWetterstein — 47.42°N, 11.00°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 24.52°N, 46.41°EEffinger Schichten — 47.26°N, 7.52°ECanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WTerres Noires — 44.30°N, 5.20°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WHallstätt — 48.52°N, 20.48°EGlowaczów — 50.89°N, 21.66°EKhun Huai — 16.65°N, 98.65°E

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The named rock units Spirillinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 70 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spirillinidae and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Spirillinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 99 sites for Spirillinidae, 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

64 references

Each of the 154 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. 52 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 Spirillina vivipara Ehrenberg, 1843

Source
GBIF
Credit
narido
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Spirillinidae 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 itSpirillinina through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reuss and Fritsch 1861)