Arctitreta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StreptorhynchinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 76 million years on record.
The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
130 occurrences of Arctitreta 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
130 occurrences- Carboniferous2%
- Permian98%
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
- Wegener Halvo Formation18
- Callytharra Formation12
- Saiwan Formation10
- Buffel Formation7
- Bundella Formation7
- Tsagan-Ula Formation7
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The named rock units Arctitreta 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. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Arctitreta and its relatives
PermianWhere Arctitreta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
579 taxa- Fasciculatia striatoparadoxa8 sites
- Kochiproductus plexicostatus8 sites
- Trigonotreta8 sites
- Spiriferella loveni7 sites
- Yakovlevia mammatiformis6 sites
- Ambikella ovata5 sites
- Anidanthus springsurensis5 sites
- Aperispirifer lethamensis5 sites
- Cleiothyridina5 sites
- Costatumulus tumidus5 sites
- Craspedalosia pulchella5 sites
- Etheripecten tenuicollis5 sites
- Kaninospirifer costellinus5 sites
- Mesopunctia macropustulosus5 sites
- Saetosina multispinosa5 sites
- Stenoscisma5 sites
- Strophalosia5 sites
- Syrella elongata5 sites
- Thamnosia arctica5 sites
- Waagenoconcha payeri5 sites
- Biplatyconcha grandis4 sites
- Capillonia semicircularis4 sites
- Cyrtella4 sites
- Cyrtorostra laticostata4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Arctitreta, 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
43 references- Permian brachiopod faunas of central east Greenland18
- The Permian Orthotetacea of Western Australia11
- Kalashnikov, 19938
- Pavlova et al., 19918
- Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia8
- Late Palaeozoic (Tamarian; Late Carboniferous-Early Permian) cold-water brachiopods from Tasmania7
- Brachiopoda from the Late Permian Senja Formation, Manang area, Nepal Himalaya5
- Strophomenoid brachiopods from the higher Permian faunas of the Back Creek Group in the Bowen Basin5
- Early Permian (Sakmarian) brachiopods from southeastern Oman4
- Late Palaeozoic Scyphozoa and Brachiopoda (Inarticulata, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, Australia4
- Quantitative palaeoecology in the Pachycyrtella bed, Early Permian of interior Oman3
- Gondwana deglaciation and opening of Neotethys: the Al Khlata and Saiwan Formations of interior Oman3
Each of the 130 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. 31 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 Arctitreta
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- 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 itStreptorhynchinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whitfield 1908