Turrispirillina

Turrispirillina

A. Loeblich & H. Tappan · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpirillinidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 2 of 9 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 7 of 9 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237 Mya205.7 Mya242.3 Mya200.6 Mya

9 occurrences of Turrispirillina on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

9 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

5 formations

Mt. Facito — 40.48°N, 15.65°EPanormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EWetterstein — 47.42°N, 11.00°EHallstätt — 48.52°N, 20.48°E

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The named rock units Turrispirillina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turrispirillina and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Turrispirillina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Turrispirillina, 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

7 references

Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Turrispirillina

Source
GBIF
Credit
A. Loeblich & H. Tappan
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSpirillinidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1927