Spirorbis Daudin 1800 (worm)

Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae

Parent taxon: Serpulidae according to W. Kiessling 2009

See also Gall 1971, Martin 1904, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1999

Sister taxa: Alpinotubus, Barbafera, Carpathiella, Ditrupa, Dorsoserpula, Filograna, Filogranites, Janua, Josephella, Laminatubus, Mercierella, Nogrobs, Parsimonia, Pentaserpula, Propomatoceros, Protis, Protula, Pseudovermilia, Pyrgopolon, Rotularia, Ruxingella, Semivermilia, Serpula, Spirobranchus, Vitreotubus, Weixiserpula

Subtaxa: Spirorbis ambiguus Spirorbis angulatus Spirorbis calvertensis Spirorbis cincinnatiensis Spirorbis globosus Spirorbis helix Spirorbis infundibulum Spirorbis omphalotes Spirorbis permianus Spirorbis pusillus

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (3 collections), France (1), Greenland (9), Maldives (2), Mexico (3), United States (2: Alaska, California)

• Pliocene of Greece (1), Indian Ocean (1)

• Miocene of French Southern Territories (1), Germany (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), Ukraine (2), United States (1: California)

• Oligocene of Germany (1)

• Eocene of Germany (1), Mexico (1), United States (4: Alabama, Florida, Texas)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1)

• Cretaceous of the Czech Republic (3), United States (3: Arizona)

• Jurassic of France (1), Portugal (2)

• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (1), China (14), France (1), Germany (3), Greenland (4), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Italy (7), Oman (1), Spain (1), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: New Mexico)

• Permian of Australia (1), Azerbaijan (1), China (2), Greece (1), Italy (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (30: Alaska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah), Venezuela (2)

• Virgilian of United States (3: New Mexico)

• Desmoinesian of United States (2: Kansas, Texas)

• Chesterian of United States (1: Iowa)

• Osagean of the United Kingdom (1)

• Carboniferous to Permian of China (1), United States (4: California)

• Mississippian of the United Kingdom (1)

• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta), the Netherlands (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (39: Alabama, Alaska, California, Indiana, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah)

• Devonian of Australia (5), Belgium (3), Canada (24: Alberta, Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic (1), France (2), Germany (18), Poland (1), Spain (1), United States (19: Alaska, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, New York, Ohio, Tennessee)

• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Silurian of Canada (3: Ontario, Quebec), Estonia (1), Sweden (8), the United Kingdom (4), United States (17: Alaska, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee)

• Ordovician of Canada (2: Ontario, Quebec), United States (6: New York, Ohio)

Total: 314 collections including 323 occurrences

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