Derbyia complicata
No picture of Derbyia complicata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Derbyia complicata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DerbyiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
30 occurrences of Derbyia complicata 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
30 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Derbyia complicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Derbyia complicata and its relatives
PermianWhere Derbyia complicata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
618 taxa- Meekella calathica27 sites
- Acosarina mesoplatys23 sites
- Echinauris irregularis23 sites
- Derbyia laqueata22 sites
- Rhamnaria tenuispinosa20 sites
- Megousia auriculata18 sites
- Permophricodothyris bullata18 sites
- Edriosteges multispinosus17 sites
- Composita16 sites
- Derbyia informis16 sites
- Hercosia uddeni16 sites
- Texarina wordensis16 sites
- Rhynchopora hebetata15 sites
- Xenosteges adherens15 sites
- Girtypecten sublaqueatus14 sites
- Institella leonardensis14 sites
- Stenoscisma triquetrum14 sites
- Chonosteges pulcher13 sites
- Derbyia cincinnata13 sites
- Dielasma13 sites
- Diplanus lamellatus13 sites
- Eocamptonectes papillatus13 sites
- Hustedia13 sites
- Rhipidomella hispidula13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Derbyia complicata, 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
2 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI28
- Paleontology, Taphonomy, and Paleoecology of the Palmarito Formation (Permian of Venezuela)2
Each of the 30 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
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No picture of Derbyia complicata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Derbyia complicata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Derbyia complicata 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDerbyia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1974