Thecospira
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThecospiridaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Thecideida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Thecideida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Thecideida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
62 occurrences of Thecospira 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
62 occurrences- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassic99%
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
13 formations
- San Cassiano Formation15
- Cassian Formation8
- Koessen Formation4
- Veszprém Marl Formation4
- Sandorhegy Limestone Formation3
- Raibl Formation3
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The named rock units Thecospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Thecospira and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Thecospira and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
549 taxa- Diplospirella wissmanni11 sites
- Cassianopsis armata7 sites
- Coelostylina conica7 sites
- Echinoidea7 sites
- Gervillia (Cultriopsis) angusta7 sites
- Gruenewaldia woehrmanni7 sites
- Rhaetina pyriformis7 sites
- Sinucosta gregaria7 sites
- Terquemia7 sites
- Amphiclina squamula6 sites
- Aulacothyris zirlensis6 sites
- Dioristella indistincta6 sites
- Diplospirella sufflata6 sites
- Fissirhynchia fissicostata6 sites
- Naticopsis6 sites
- Veghirhynchia arpadica6 sites
- Zugmayerella uncinata6 sites
- Balatonospira lipoldi5 sites
- Gastropoda5 sites
- Hungarispira aracanga5 sites
- Hypsipleura subnodosa5 sites
- Katosira5 sites
- Lima5 sites
- Pecten veszprimiensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Thecospira, 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
19 references- Carnian Theocospridae (Brachiopoda) from San Cassiano Formation (Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy)15
- Brachiopoden aus der Trias des Bakonyer Waldes [Brachiopods from the Triassic of the Bakony Forest]12
- Primary collection data of Cassian Formation used for publication of Fürsich and Wendt (1977) (ref. 9188)5
- Triassische Megalodontaceae - Entwicklung, Stratigraphie und Palaontologie5
- Die Fauna der sogenannten Cardita- und Raibler-Schichten in den Nordtiroler und bayerischen Alpen.5
- Carnian brachiopods of Hungary3
- Untersuchungen über rhätische Brachiopoden3
- Dagys, 19742
- Brachiopoden und Lamellibranchiaten aus der Trias von Bosnien, Dalmatien, und Venetien [Brachiopods and bivalves of the Triassic of Bosnia, Dalmatia and Veneto]2
- Diversity and palaeoecology of a highly diverse Late Triassic marine biota from the Cassian Formation of north Italy1
- Makrofavna karnijskih plasti meziskega prostora [Macrofauna of the Carnian beds in the Mezica area]1
- On Carnian brachiopods of the Gaisberg near Kirchberg in Tirol (Northern Calcareous Alps, Tyrol)1
Each of the 62 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. 7 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 Thecospira 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 Thecospira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thecospira 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 itThecospiridae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zugmayer 1882