Webbyspira
No picture of Webbyspira 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 Webbyspira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IdiospirinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 4.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 452.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 449 Mya.
6 occurrences of Webbyspira on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Webbyspira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Webbyspira and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Webbyspira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Rhynchotrema oepiki5 sites
- Sowerbyites isotes4 sites
- Dinorthis hadra3 sites
- Acidolites2 sites
- Bajgolia2 sites
- Coccoseris2 sites
- Cystistroma2 sites
- Dinorthis2 sites
- Eofletcheria2 sites
- Gorbyoceras2 sites
- Hillophyllum2 sites
- Mabella halis2 sites
- Plectorthis cliefdenensis2 sites
- Pliomerina2 sites
- Pseudobasilicus2 sites
- Remopleurides2 sites
- Rosenella2 sites
- Trocholites2 sites
- Troedssonella2 sites
- Anoptambonites1 site
- Anoptambonites exedra1 site
- Austraphylloporina sp.1 site
- Batostoma1 site
- Chaganella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Webbyspira, 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
2 references- Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia5
- Ordovician island biotas: New South Wales record and global implications1
Each of the 6 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 Webbyspira 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 Webbyspira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Webbyspira 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.
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What may have been alongside itIdiospirinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.