Brachythyrididae

Choristites Fischer de Waldheim, 1825, a relative of Brachythyrididae — not Brachythyrididae itself

Not Brachythyrididae. This is Choristites Fischer de Waldheim, 1825, a relative — both are Brachythyrididae.

Collector(s): Robert Gebhardt · 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
BrachythyridoideaPBDB
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 least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 227 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 172 of 227 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 52 of 227 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 227 occurrences375–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–366 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences366–362 Mya — about 1 occurrence362–358 Mya — about 7 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 24 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 23 occurrences350–345 Mya — about 21 occurrences345–341 Mya — about 22 occurrences341–337 Mya — about 23 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 23 occurrences333–329 Mya — about 16 occurrences329–325 Mya — about 4 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 2 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 2 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–295 Mya — about 8 occurrences295–291 Mya — about 10 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 5 occurrences287–283 Mya — about 3 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences275–270 Mya — about 4 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 4 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 4 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 6 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 6 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences358.86 Mya254.14 Mya375 Mya249 Mya

227 occurrences of Brachythyrididae 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

227 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

80 formations

Woolooma — 32.50°S, 151.00°EWoolooma — 30.11°S, 150.28°EWoolooma — 32.15°S, 150.99°EFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WNamoi — 31.03°S, 150.57°EFlagstaff Sandstone — 32.28°S, 151.63°EFlagstaff Sandstone — 32.21°S, 151.57°EChappel Limestone — 31.06°N, 99.30°WChappel Limestone — 31.04°N, 99.13°WChappel Limestone — 30.68°N, 99.33°WChappel Limestone — 31.20°N, 98.97°WChappel Limestone — 30.31°N, 98.30°WBanff — 57.00°N, 120.00°WBanff — 52.25°N, 117.25°WBanff — 53.08°N, 118.06°WBanff — 51.80°N, 115.83°WBanff — 51.42°N, 115.75°WWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WWargal — 32.52°N, 72.30°EWargal — 32.43°N, 72.28°ERat Buri — 13.40°N, 99.76°ERat Buri — 7.38°N, 99.30°EEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.33°N, 86.67°WBingleburra — 32.43°S, 151.57°EJungle Creek — 64.97°N, 140.90°WJungle Creek — 65.39°N, 140.70°WHare Fiord — 80.73°N, 85.68°WHare Fiord — 81.13°N, 84.33°WHare Fiord — 81.10°N, 85.12°WPiqiang — 39.75°N, 77.93°EBerrico Creek — 31.98°S, 151.70°EBerrico Creek — 31.93°S, 151.72°EWaverley — 32.50°S, 151.00°EWaverley — 32.08°S, 150.98°EWaverley — 32.10°S, 151.13°ESaginaw Bay — 56.92°N, 134.22°WSaginaw Bay — 56.85°N, 134.13°WMonsal Dale Limestone — 53.19°N, 1.75°WLodgepole — 43.83°N, 111.75°WBesa River — 61.10°N, 123.98°WAlan Mountain Limestone — 47.42°N, 105.59°WBrazer Dolomite — 40.16°N, 110.40°WFlett — 63.88°N, 127.75°WWassonville — 41.58°N, 91.33°W

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The named rock units Brachythyrididae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachythyrididae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Brachythyrididae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2,171 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 192 sites for Brachythyrididae, 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

80 references

Each of the 227 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. 68 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 Choristites Fischer de Waldheim, 1825

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): Robert Gebhardt
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Brachythyrididae 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 itBrachythyridoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fredericks 1924