Etymothyris

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RensselaeriinaePBDB
- 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 most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Etymothyris on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
- Esopus Formation · Tristates Group2
- Erbslochgrauwacke Formation1
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The named rock units Etymothyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Etymothyris and its relatives
DevonianWhere Etymothyris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Eodevonaria3 sites
- Platyorthis3 sites
- Acrospirifer2 sites
- Hysterolites2 sites
- Leptocoelia2 sites
- Protoleptostrophia2 sites
- Salopina2 sites
- Schuchertella2 sites
- Actinodesma (Asselbergshia) annae1 site
- Ambocoelia1 site
- Anoplia1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Atrypa (Atrypa) lorana1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Barrandeophyllum1 site
- Bellerophontoidea1 site
- Bifida1 site
- Boeckops zinkeni1 site
- Bojodouvillina1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Brachyspirifer (Brachyspirifer) carinatus1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Caulostrepsis1 site
- Charionoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Etymothyris, 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
3 references- Fauna und Alter der Erbslochgrauwacke (Brachiopoden und Trilobiten, Unter-Devon, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge und Harz1
- Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopods, structure and stratigraphy of the Green Pond Outlier in southeastern New York1
- Brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Rocks at Highland Mills, New York1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Etymothyris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Etymothyris 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 itRensselaeriinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.