Tasmanospirifer
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrigonotretinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Tasmanospirifer on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tasmanospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tasmanospirifer and its relatives
PermianWhere Tasmanospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Fletcherithyris biundata6 sites
- Johndearia brevis5 sites
- Sulciplica transversa5 sites
- Notospirifer triplicata4 sites
- Simplicisulcus4 sites
- Strophalosia yalwalensis4 sites
- Ingelarella3 sites
- Ingelarellidae2 sites
- Coledium evexum1 site
- Echinalosia1 site
- Megadesmus1 site
- Paragilledia ulladullensis1 site
- Pustulospiriferina australis1 site
- Stutchburia1 site
- Sulciplica phalaena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Tasmanospirifer, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Kungurian (Cisuralian/Early Permian) brachiopods from the Snapper Point Formation, southern Sydney Basin, southeastern Australia10
- Silicified brachiopod and bivalve fossils from the mid-Permian (Kungurian−Roadian) Wandrawandian Siltstone of the southern Sydney Basin, southeastern Australia: implications for taphonomy and silicification1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tasmanospirifer 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 Tasmanospirifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tasmanospirifer 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 itTrigonotretinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waterhouse 2016