Compressoproductus

Yale Peabody Museum · 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
- CompressoproductinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 39 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
216 occurrences of Compressoproductus 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
216 occurrences- Permian100%
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
46 formations
- Cathedral Mountain Formation32
- Skinner Ranch Formation24
- Wargal Formation23
- Changxing Formation11
- Lengwu Formation7
- Chhidru Formation7
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The named rock units Compressoproductus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Compressoproductus and its relatives
PermianWhere Compressoproductus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
2,112 taxa- Hercosia uddeni33 sites
- Derbyia27 sites
- Institella leonardensis26 sites
- Meekella calathica26 sites
- Acosarina mesoplatys25 sites
- Composita25 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa25 sites
- Echinauris irregularis24 sites
- Haydenella kiangsiensis24 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi24 sites
- Costiferina indica23 sites
- Hustedia23 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus23 sites
- Dielasma22 sites
- Diplanus lamellatus22 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni22 sites
- Chonosteges variabilis21 sites
- Permophricodothyris bullata21 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis20 sites
- Derbyia laqueata20 sites
- Xenosteges adherens20 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa19 sites
- Rhipidomella hispidula19 sites
- Spyridiophora reticulata19 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 187 sites for Compressoproductus, 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
53 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI69
- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range23
- Brachiopoda of the Permian system of USSR, Fasc. I. Permian Brachiopoda of north Caucasus, families Chonetidae Hall et Clarke and Productidae Gray14
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda13
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 49
- Changhsingian brachiopod assemblage sequence in Zhongliang Hill, Chongqing5
- The brachiopods and the boundary of Late Carboniferous-Early Permian in Longlin region, Guangxi5
- Permiskie brakhiopodi yujnogo Primoriya5
- Permian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from north-west Nepal5
- Personal Opinions4
- Yang et al., 19874
- Permian Brachiopoda of the Pamir4
Each of the 216 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. 41 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 Compressoproductus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Compressoproductus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCompressoproductinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sarytcheva 1960