Atrypina

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtrypininaePBDB
- 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 55 million years on record.
The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
154 occurrences of Atrypina on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
154 occurrences- Ordovicianunder 1%
- Silurian74%
- Devonian26%
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
61 formations
- Roberts Mountain Formation12
- Racine Formation7
- Motol Formation7
- Jupiter Formation · Anticosti Group7
- Williamson Shale Formation · Clinton Group6
- Rochester Shale Formation · Clinton Group5
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The named rock units Atrypina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Atrypina and its relatives
SilurianWhere Atrypina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
1,431 taxa- Atrypa reticularis67 sites
- Nucleospira51 sites
- Dalejina44 sites
- Isorthis44 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus42 sites
- Atrypa41 sites
- Howellella39 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis39 sites
- Dalmanites35 sites
- Bryozoa34 sites
- Dicoelosia34 sites
- Favosites34 sites
- Dicoelosia biloba33 sites
- Leptaena32 sites
- Craniops31 sites
- Dolerorthis31 sites
- Meristina29 sites
- Eucalyptocrinites28 sites
- Cyrtia27 sites
- Fardenia (Coolinia)27 sites
- Cyrtina26 sites
- Dalejina hybrida25 sites
- Rugosa24 sites
- Whitfieldella24 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 150 sites for Atrypina, 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
53 references- Pridolian and early Gedinnian age brachiopods from the Roberts Mountains Formation of central Nevada15
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America14
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York13
- Anticosti Island, Québec8
- Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology7
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)7
- Some Wenlockian-Geddinian, chiefly brachiopod dominated communities of North America5
- Bathymetry and paleoecology of Silurian benthic assemblages, late Llandoverian, New York State5
- Brachiopod communities of the Lithuanian Silurian4
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia4
- Guild structure and tiering in a high-diversity Silurian community, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin4
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China4
Each of the 154 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. 41 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 Atrypina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Atrypina 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 itAtrypininae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Clarke 1893