Tenticospirifer

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyrtospiriferinaePBDB
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 least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 63 of 63 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 63 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 3 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 5 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 5 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 5 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 6 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 6 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 6 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 5 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 5 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 4 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 3 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 3 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 1 occurrence368–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya372.15 Mya394.2 Mya358.2 Mya

63 occurrences of Tenticospirifer on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

63 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

20 formations

Lime Creek — 43.05°N, 92.96°WLime Creek — 42.02°N, 93.45°WLime Creek — 43.05°N, 92.97°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.11°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.11°WMartin — 34.88°N, 112.35°WMartin — 34.45°N, 111.84°WXikuangshan — 27.78°N, 111.50°EShell Rock — 43.35°N, 92.78°WSchistes de Beaulieu — 50.84°N, 1.76°EKowala — 50.82°N, 20.58°EKowala — 50.73°N, 20.45°EKowala — 50.82°N, 20.42°ECalcaire de Ferques — 48.87°N, 2.33°ECockatoo — 25.00°S, 122.00°ECockatoo — 15.50°S, 128.50°EShetianqiao — 27.78°N, 111.50°EShetianqiao — 27.12°N, 111.95°EBlacourt — 46.00°N, 2.00°EBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°ESultan — 35.87°N, 115.63°WSultan — 35.64°N, 115.64°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.53°N, 133.15°WLuijiang — 24.10°N, 109.98°EPortilla — 41.05°N, 3.33°WHargreaves — 14.86°S, 128.50°EBuregi — 58.16°N, 31.07°ETathlina — 60.82°N, 115.80°WHongguleleng — 44.50°N, 94.00°EDewal — 33.62°N, 67.90°EWietrznia — 50.85°N, 28.63°E

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The named rock units Tenticospirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tenticospirifer and its relatives

Devonian

Where Tenticospirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

231 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Tenticospirifer, 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

22 references

Each of the 63 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. 10 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 content0

No picture of Tenticospirifer was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan of Tenticospirifer was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.