Acuminothyris

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StrophopleurinaePBDB
- 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 most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Acuminothyris on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
7 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Bingleburra Formation · Burindi Group4
- Woolooma Formation2
- Gancaohu Formation1
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The named rock units Acuminothyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acuminothyris and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Acuminothyris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Cleiothyridina6 sites
- Eomarginifera6 sites
- Leptagonia analoga6 sites
- Rhipidomella6 sites
- Unispirifer6 sites
- Brachythyris5 sites
- Asyrinxia4 sites
- Dielasma4 sites
- Fistulamina4 sites
- Goniocladia laxa4 sites
- Marginatia4 sites
- Streptorhynchus4 sites
- Cladochonus tenuicollis3 sites
- Fluctuaria3 sites
- Kitakamithyris3 sites
- Krotovia3 sites
- Productina3 sites
- Ramipora3 sites
- Rugosochonetes3 sites
- Schizophoria resupinata3 sites
- Schizophoria verulamensis3 sites
- Athyris2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Cladochonus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Acuminothyris, 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
4 references- A lower Carboniferous fauna from Lewinsbrook, New South Wales3
- Early Carboniferous brachiopod zones of eastern Australia2
- Tournaisian-Visean brachiopods from the Gancaohu area of southern Tienshan Mountains, Xinjiang, NW China1
- A Lower Carboniferous fauna from Trevallyn, New South Wales1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Acuminothyris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acuminothyris 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 itStrophopleurinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.