Brachythyrina

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AngiospiriferinaePBDB
- 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 92 million years on record.
The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
52 occurrences of Brachythyrina 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
52 occurrences- Carboniferous42%
- Permian58%
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
30 formations
- Maping Formation5
- Dingjiazhai Formation4
- Tahaqi Formation3
- Delendzha Formation3
- Um Bogma Formation2
- Amsden Formation2
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The named rock units Brachythyrina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Brachythyrina and its relatives
PermianWhere Brachythyrina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
638 taxa- Linoproductus7 sites
- Choristites6 sites
- Dielasma6 sites
- Antiquatonia5 sites
- Krotovia pustulata5 sites
- Callispirina ornata4 sites
- Cancrinella cancriniformis4 sites
- Chaoiella gruenewaldti4 sites
- Cleiothyridina4 sites
- Dictyoclostus4 sites
- Martinia4 sites
- Meekella4 sites
- Neospirifer4 sites
- Phricodothyris4 sites
- Purdonella nikitini4 sites
- Ambocoelia3 sites
- Cancrinelloides yuregensis3 sites
- Hexiproductus echidniformis3 sites
- Kasetia kaseti3 sites
- Leptodus3 sites
- Linoproductus simensis3 sites
- Marginifera3 sites
- Punctospirifer3 sites
- Purdonella3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Brachythyrina, 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
30 references- The brachiopods and the boundary of Late Carboniferous-Early Permian in Longlin region, Guangxi8
- Lower Cisuralian brachiopod faunas from the Lhasa and South Qiangtang blocks in Tibet and their biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications4
- Early Permian Brachiopods of Gondwana affinity from the Dingjiazhai Formation of the Baoshan Block, western Yunnan, China4
- Devonian-Carboniferous brachiopod zonation in the Tarim Basin, northwest China: implications for biostratigraphy and biogeography.3
- New Permian brachiopods from Verkhoyan3
- Late Bashkirian ammonoids from the Mospyne Formation of the Donets Basin, Ukraine2
- Yang et al., 19872
- Early Permian brachiopods from Ko Yao Noi and near Krabi, southern Thailand2
- Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Amsden Formation (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian) of Wyoming2
- Permo-Pennsylvanian brachythyrid and horridonid brachiopods from the Yukon Territory, Canada2
- New species of Early Permian brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the boreal basin of Mongolia1
- Bashkirian to Moscovian (late Carboniferous) brachiopod faunas from the western Kunlun Mountains, northwest China1
Each of the 52 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. 18 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 Brachythyrina
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- 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 itAngiospiriferinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frederiks 1929