Gotatrypa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtrypinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 399.5 Mya.
37 occurrences of Gotatrypa on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
37 occurrencesThese 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
12 formations
- Delorme Formation9
- Jupiter Formation6
- Chicotte Formation4
- Motol Formation3
- Attawapiskat Formation3
- Meniér Formation3
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The named rock units Gotatrypa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gotatrypa and its relatives
SilurianWhere Gotatrypa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
323 taxa- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) variabilis7 sites
- Dicoelosia6 sites
- Hedeina6 sites
- Pentlandina harperi6 sites
- Skenidioides operosa6 sites
- Calymene polgari5 sites
- Diacalymene gabrielsi5 sites
- Hercotrema pentaforma5 sites
- Septatrypa zelia5 sites
- Struszia5 sites
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) blodgetti4 sites
- Borealarges renodis4 sites
- Ceratocephala4 sites
- Deiphon4 sites
- Dicranogmus lepidus4 sites
- Leonaspis4 sites
- Leptaena4 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa4 sites
- Lissatrypa4 sites
- Merista cuneatina4 sites
- Morinorhynchus crispus4 sites
- Nucleospira lentilca4 sites
- Otarion huddyi4 sites
- Pentlandina lamelliformis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Gotatrypa, 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
14 references- Latest Ordovician-Silurian articulate brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Avalanche Lake area, southwestern District of Mackenzie, Canada10
- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian6
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)4
- Llandovery (Early Silurian) orthide brachiopod associations from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada3
- A new early Silurian brachiopod genus, Thulatrypa, from Norway and South China, and its palaeobiogeographical significance2
- The Early Silurian brachiopod Eocoelia from the Hudson Bay Basin, Canada2
- The deep-water brachiopod Dicoelosia King, 1850, from the early Silurian tropical carbonate shelf of Anticosti Island, eastern Canada2
- Paleoecologic, temporal, and spatial analysis of Early Silurian reefs of the Chicotte Formation, Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada2
- Wenlockian to Pragian brachiopod communities of the northern Canadian Cordillera1
- Early Silurian brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec1
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia1
- Silurian (Wenlockian) brachiopods from southeastern California1
Each of the 37 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. 2 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 Gotatrypa
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Gotatrypa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.