Chonetidina
A suborder of brachiopods containing the families:Family Strophochonetidae Family Chonostrophiidae Family Anopliidae Family Eodevonariidae Family Chonetidae Family Rugosochonetidae Family Daviesiellidae

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- ProductidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 218 million years on record.
The record covers at least 455 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 174.7 Mya.
7,098 occurrences of Chonetidina 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
7,098 occurrences- Ordovicianunder 1%
- Silurian6%
- Devonian31%
- Carboniferous19%
- Permian43%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
- Early Jurassicunder 1%
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
931 formations
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group244
- Longtan Formation242
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group185
- Changxing Formation161
- Dalong Formation132
- Geneseo Formation · Genesee Group132
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The named rock units Chonetidina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 907 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 696 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chonetidina and its relatives
PermianWhere Chonetidina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,025 taxa- Crinoidea73 sites
- Composita subtilita69 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer65 sites
- Derbyia52 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari52 sites
- Rhombopora47 sites
- Crurithyris46 sites
- Brachiopoda39 sites
- Reticulatia huecoensis37 sites
- Hystriculina wabashensis36 sites
- Hustedia mormoni35 sites
- Punctospirifer33 sites
- Chonetes32 sites
- Rhipidomella32 sites
- Chonetinella31 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina31 sites
- Chonetes mesoloba30 sites
- Composita28 sites
- Crurithyris expansa28 sites
- Schuchertella28 sites
- Hustedia27 sites
- Bivalvia26 sites
- Gastropoda26 sites
- Orbiculoidea26 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,529 sites for Chonetidina, and this reads 240 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
807 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI496
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas230
- The Dynamics of Rapid, Asynchronous Biotic Turnover in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin of New York138
- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range110
- A new Changhsingian (Late Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Zhongzhai section (South China) Part 3: Productida105
- Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology100
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis99
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda98
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri88
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York76
- Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas74
- T.D. Olszewski''s Ph.D. - Penn State University73
Each of the 7,098 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. 795 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 Chonetidina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dwergenpaartje
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Chonetidina”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProductida through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muir-Wood 1955