Spirina

No picture of Spirina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spirina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CraspedostomatidaePBDB
Diet
parasite, carnivorePBDB, for Platyceratoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platyceratoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Platyceratoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 8 of 11 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 11 occurrencesDevonian440–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences432.9 Mya383.4 Mya440 Mya381 Mya

11 occurrences of Spirina 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

11 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

7 formations

Pozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 50.20°N, 12.48°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EWether Law Linn — 55.81°N, 3.36°WFluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EVik — 59.90°N, 10.52°EKess-Kess — 30.95°N, 4.05°WBrilon Massenkalk — 51.40°N, 8.72°E

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The named rock units Spirina 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.

Spirina and its relatives

Silurian

Where Spirina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

290 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Spirina, 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

Each of the 11 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 content0

No picture of Spirina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spirina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spirina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCraspedostomatidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kayser 1889