Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea)

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtrypoideaPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
57 occurrences of Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea) 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
57 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
24 formations
- Vievis Formation6
- Kalvitza Formation4
- Yarralumla Formation4
- Minija Formation4
- Attawapiskat Formation3
- Dubysa Formation3
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The named rock units Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea) and its relatives
SilurianWhere Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea) and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
250 taxa- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula13 sites
- Howellella12 sites
- Protochonetes piltenensis11 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata10 sites
- Atrypa reticularis8 sites
- Bryozoa8 sites
- Dayia navicula8 sites
- Isorthis8 sites
- Homoeospira baylei7 sites
- Spirinella caecistriata7 sites
- Atrypa6 sites
- Delthyris6 sites
- Favosites6 sites
- Gastropoda6 sites
- Leptaena6 sites
- Levenea canaliculata6 sites
- Pseudoprotathyris infantilis6 sites
- Rugosa6 sites
- Salopina6 sites
- Shaleria6 sites
- Craniops5 sites
- Morinorhynchus orbignyi5 sites
- Protochonetes striatellus5 sites
- Shaleria (Shaleriella) ezerensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea), 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
20 references- Some Silurian Brachiopods from Lithuania and their Palaeobiogeographical significance10
- Australian communities6
- Brakhiopody Pentamerida i Spiriferida silura Estonii - Siluran Brachiopods Pentamerida and Spiriferida of Estonia6
- Communities and Biozones in the Baltic Silurian5
- Brachiopod communities of the Lithuanian Silurian4
- The chief Wenlockian-Lochkovian benthic communities of the Vaigach to southern Novaya Zemlya region4
- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian3
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia3
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region2
- Silurian Brachiopod communities in the section of the Pilviškiai - 141 borehole2
- Silurian Brachiopod communities in the section of the Vilkaviskis-129 boring2
- Review of the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian articulate brachiopods of Podolia2
Each of the 57 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. 8 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 Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea) was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAtrypoidea through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williams et al. 2002