Araxathyris

Araxathyris

Yale Peabody Museum · 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
SpirigerellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 215.38 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 368 occurrencesPermian — about 363 of 368 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 368 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 368 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 368 occurrencesLate Triassic301–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences280–277 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences272–269 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 3 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 6 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 5 occurrences260–257 Mya — about 93 occurrences257–254 Mya — about 99 occurrences254–251 Mya — about 157 occurrences251–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence228–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274.4 Mya227.3 Mya301 Mya214 Mya

368 occurrences of Araxathyris on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

368 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

39 formations

Changxing — 29.58°N, 106.58°EChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 31.10°N, 119.73°EChangxing — 28.10°N, 105.04°EChangxing — 29.80°N, 106.45°EChangxing — 29.64°N, 107.89°EChangxing — 26.70°N, 106.79°EChangxing — 26.61°N, 107.22°EChangxing — 27.46°N, 107.14°EChangxing — 26.00°N, 117.00°EChangxing — 30.30°N, 106.85°EChangxing — 30.49°N, 107.00°EChangxing — 30.13°N, 106.45°EChangxing — 28.91°N, 106.89°EChangxing — 30.21°N, 106.76°EChangxing — 30.09°N, 106.64°EChangxing — 29.91°N, 106.52°EChangxing — 26.38°N, 105.92°EChangxing — 31.76°N, 108.46°EJulfa — 38.94°N, 45.51°EJulfa — 38.73°N, 45.58°EWargal — 32.43°N, 72.28°EWargal — 32.50°N, 72.03°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.55°N, 71.77°EWargal — 32.63°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.72°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.70°N, 71.65°EWargal — 32.73°N, 71.63°EWargal — 33.00°N, 71.53°EWargal — 32.26°N, 71.10°ENesen — 36.26°N, 51.48°ENesen — 36.26°N, 52.37°ENesen — 36.22°N, 51.35°ENesen — 36.26°N, 51.43°ENesen — 36.25°N, 52.36°EHambast — 30.91°N, 53.22°EShuizhutang — 24.62°N, 112.38°EShuizhutang — 24.66°N, 112.36°EChhidru — 32.47°N, 72.23°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.13°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.02°EChhidru — 32.63°N, 71.75°EChhidru — 32.88°N, 71.57°EChhidru — 32.97°N, 71.57°ELongtan — 26.03°N, 105.10°ELongtan — 30.65°N, 118.45°ELongtan — 29.05°N, 106.65°ELongtan — 30.21°N, 106.76°ELongtan — 30.09°N, 106.64°ELongtan — 26.50°N, 105.58°EHeshan — 23.82°N, 108.87°EMaokou — 32.27°N, 105.42°EMaokou — 30.92°N, 111.60°EMaokou — 30.09°N, 106.64°EMaokou — 30.21°N, 106.76°EJulfa — 38.98°N, 45.53°EChanghsing — 30.90°N, 119.93°EChanghsing — 30.87°N, 120.10°EChanghsing — 27.57°N, 106.83°EAkhura — 38.98°N, 45.53°EAkhura — 39.45°N, 45.23°EDalong — 23.77°N, 108.86°EDalong — 26.61°N, 107.22°EDalong — 26.67°N, 106.23°EAli Bashi — 38.94°N, 45.51°EAli Bashi — 38.73°N, 45.58°EWerfen — 46.38°N, 11.85°EWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°EWerfen — 46.29°N, 11.52°EWangjiazhai — 28.10°N, 105.04°EWangjiazhai — 26.13°N, 105.35°ESurmaq — 31.05°N, 52.88°ESurmaq — 30.90°N, 53.22°EYelang — 27.57°N, 106.83°ERustler — 31.61°N, 104.23°WRustler — 31.53°N, 104.23°WKaixinling — 34.30°N, 92.75°EQixia — 30.21°N, 106.76°ETalung — 23.70°N, 109.32°EHuai Thak — 18.98°N, 99.98°E

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The named rock units Araxathyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Araxathyris and its relatives

Permian

Where Araxathyris and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 268 sites for Araxathyris, and this reads 240 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

64 references

Each of the 368 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. 52 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 content1

Picture of Araxathyris

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Araxathyris 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 itSpirigerellinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grunt 1965