Elythidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ReticularioideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 158 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
1,995 occurrences of Elythidae 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
1,995 occurrences- Silurianunder 1%
- Devonian12%
- Carboniferous22%
- Permian66%
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
352 formations
- Changxing Formation88
- Longtan Formation65
- Wargal Formation54
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group52
- Cathedral Mountain Formation51
- Road Canyon Formation49
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The named rock units Elythidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 328 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 257 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elythidae and its relatives
PermianWhere Elythidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,141 taxa- Fenestella94 sites
- Torynifer79 sites
- Fistulipora55 sites
- Rhipidomella54 sites
- Crinoidea53 sites
- Elita53 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa52 sites
- Cleiothyridina50 sites
- Eumetria50 sites
- Platyceras50 sites
- Spirifer49 sites
- Composita46 sites
- Schuchertella44 sites
- Douvillina43 sites
- Bryozoa42 sites
- Pentremites40 sites
- Camarotoechia39 sites
- Dichocrinus39 sites
- Polypora39 sites
- Archimedes36 sites
- Orthotetes35 sites
- Sulcoretepora35 sites
- Tabulipora34 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi33 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,608 sites for Elythidae, 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
355 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI220
- Zeng et al., 199577
- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range71
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda52
- Guadalupian brachiopods from Djebel Tebaga de Medenine, south Tunisia40
- Guadalupian brachiopods from western Taurus, Turkey35
- Early Carboniferous brachiopod zones of eastern Australia35
- Permian Elythidae (Brachiopoda) from Western Australia30
- Paleoecology of brachiopod communities during the late Paleozoic ice age in Bolivia (Copacabana Formation, Pennsylvanian-Early Permian)29
- The Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Lower Bangor Limestone (Chesterian, Mississippian)in northwestern Alabama29
- Upper Permian brachiopods from the Nesen Formation, north Iran25
- Lengwu Formation of Permian and its Brachiopod Fauna in Zhejiang Province25
Each of the 1,995 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. 343 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
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No picture of Elythidae 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 Elythidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elythidae 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 itReticularioidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fredericks 1924