Spondylospira
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpondylospirinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
66 occurrences of Spondylospira on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
66 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
14 formations
- Chambara Formation · Pucara Group24
- Luning Formation8
- Martin Bridge Formation4
- Osobb Formation3
- Modin Formation2
- Cornwallis Formation2
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The named rock units Spondylospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spondylospira and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Spondylospira and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
235 taxa- Zugmayerella uncinata7 sites
- Distichophyllia norica6 sites
- Zugmayerella koerneri6 sites
- Lobothyris monstrifer5 sites
- Lobothyris praepunctata5 sites
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta4 sites
- Cassianella4 sites
- Fissirhynchia fissicostata4 sites
- Gastropoda4 sites
- Isocrinus4 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Echinoidea3 sites
- Elysastraea3 sites
- Elysastraea profunda3 sites
- Eocomoseris ramosa3 sites
- Heptastylis3 sites
- Kuhnastraea decussata3 sites
- Nuculoidea3 sites
- Pseudospondylospira perplexa3 sites
- Retiophyllia dawsoni3 sites
- Retiophyllia norica3 sites
- Scleractinia3 sites
- Terebratulida3 sites
- Thamnasteria smithi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Spondylospira, 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- Triassic-Jurassic articulate brachiopods from the Pucara Group, central Peru, and description of the brachidial net in the spiriferid Spondylospira24
- Late Triassic cyrtinoid spiriferinacean brachiopods from western North America and their biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications24
- Fossil locality map for the Healy A-6 quadrangle, south-central Alaska10
- Late Triassic brachiopods from the Luning Formation, Nevada, and their palaeobiogeographical significance3
- Paleoecology, structure, and distribution of Triassic coral buildups in western North America2
- New paleontological investigations of Triassic carbonate rocks in the Upper Chulitna District (Chulitna Terrane), southcentral Alaska1
- New paleontological investigations of Upper Triassic shallow-water reef carbonates (Lewes River Group) in the Whitehorse area, Yukon1
- Upper Triassic invertebrates from the Antimonio Formation, Sonora, Mexico1
Each of the 66 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
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No picture of Spondylospira 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 Spondylospira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spondylospira 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpondylospirinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1942