Coenothyris

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DielasmatinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 205.7 Mya.
139 occurrences of Coenothyris on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
139 occurrences- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassic96%
- Late Triassic3%
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
22 formations
- Felsõörs Formation43
- Zuhanya Limestone Formation17
- Qingyan Formation14
- Trochitenkalk Formation · Muschelkalk Group6
- Karchowice Formation4
- Saharonim Formation4
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The named rock units Coenothyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coenothyris and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Coenothyris and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
653 taxa- Mentzelia mentzeli40 sites
- Tetractinella trigonella29 sites
- Angustothyris angustaeformis28 sites
- Punctospirella fragilis26 sites
- Decurtella decurtata20 sites
- Entolium discites18 sites
- Plagiostoma17 sites
- Encrinus liliiformis16 sites
- Plagiostoma striatum16 sites
- Volirhynchia tommasi16 sites
- Balatonites15 sites
- Costirhynchopsis mentzeli15 sites
- Hoernesia socialis15 sites
- Koeveskallina koeveskalyensis15 sites
- Neoschizodus laevigatus14 sites
- Diholkorhynchia sinensis13 sites
- Elegantinia12 sites
- Lepismatina hsui12 sites
- Pleuromya12 sites
- Terquemia difformis12 sites
- Cassianella11 sites
- Elegantinia elegans11 sites
- Septaliphorioidea paucicostata11 sites
- Sulcatinella incrassata11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 115 sites for Coenothyris, 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
46 references- The Pelsonian brachiopod fauna of the Balaton Highland42
- Recovery and diversification of marine communities following the late Permian mass extinction event in the western Palaeotethys17
- Fossilvergesellschaftungen, Paläoökologie und paläosynökologische Entwicklung im Oberen Anisium (Mittlere Trias) von Qingyan, insbesondere Bangtoupo, Provinz Guizhou, Südwestchina9
- Middle Triassic (Anisian) Brachiopods From the Yugoslavian Carpatho-Balkanides5
- Brachiopod-bivalve assemblages of the middle Triassic Terebratula Beds, Upper Siesia, Poland4
- Die Fossilien der Würzburger Trias: Brachiopoda4
- Faunal lists from Muschelkalk Museum, Ingelfingen, Germany3
- A new species of Coenothyris (Brachiopoda) from the Triassic (Upper Anisian-Ladinian) of Israel3
- Upper Triassic brachiopods from the Yugoslavian Carpatho-Balkanides (Stara Planina)3
- Der Obere Muschelkalk im nordwestlichen Niederhessen3
- Yang and Xu, 19663
- A Triassic fauna from the Jordan Valley3
Each of the 139 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. 34 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 content2

Picture of Coenothyris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itDielasmatinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Douvillé 1879)