Coptothyris

Coptothyris is a monotypic genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Terebrataliidae. The only species is Coptothyris grayi.

Coptothyris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TerebrataliinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 142 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 129 ka.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 40 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 40 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 40 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 40 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 40 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–130 Mya — about 3 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 11 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences143.1 Mya774 ka205 Mya0 Mya

40 occurrences of Coptothyris on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

40 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

21 formations

Moniwa — 38.22°N, 140.76°EMoniwa — 38.20°N, 140.85°EWindrow — 44.24°N, 94.98°WBrazeau — 52.72°N, 116.00°WTajima — 30.67°N, 131.00°ETaya — 39.72°N, 140.29°EOtsutsumi — 38.43°N, 140.85°EGrand Rapids — 53.73°N, 112.11°WTunbridge Wells Sand — 50.01°N, 0.14°WDakota — 42.50°N, 96.40°WAinonai — 43.79°N, 143.74°EDaishaka — 40.76°N, 140.59°EShibikawa — 39.97°N, 139.85°EKitaura — 39.74°N, 140.23°ESugota — 39.35°N, 140.38°EAkaura — 37.04°N, 136.96°ESuenomatsuyama — 40.28°N, 141.30°EUtsuno — 38.62°N, 140.75°EYanagawa — 37.85°N, 140.62°EKubota — 37.03°N, 140.38°ESukegawa — 36.60°N, 140.64°EKoshima — 35.35°N, 139.64°E

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The named rock units Coptothyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coptothyris and its relatives

Miocene

Where Coptothyris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

141 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Coptothyris, 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

11 references

Each of the 40 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. 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 Coptothyris

Credit
mister_bumble
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Coptothyris 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTerebrataliinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jackson 1918