Lissatrypa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LissatrypinaePBDB
- 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 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
282 occurrences of Lissatrypa 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
282 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
77 formations
- Henryhouse Formation28
- Attawapiskat Formation19
- Riga Formation16
- Paprieniai Formation16
- Hemse Beds Formation15
- Boola Beds Formation14
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The named rock units Lissatrypa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 53 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lissatrypa and its relatives
SilurianWhere Lissatrypa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
1,437 taxa- Atrypa56 sites
- Isorthis51 sites
- Atrypa reticularis49 sites
- Howellella44 sites
- Nucleospira37 sites
- Leptaena36 sites
- Favosites35 sites
- Clorinda33 sites
- Dicoelosia biloba31 sites
- Nucleospira pisum31 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus29 sites
- Dalejina hybrida29 sites
- Skenidioides lewisii29 sites
- Craniops28 sites
- Jonesea grayi28 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) segmentum28 sites
- Dicoelosia27 sites
- Howellella elegans26 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus25 sites
- Eospirifer24 sites
- Resserella canalis24 sites
- Bryozoa23 sites
- Camarotoechia23 sites
- Dalejina23 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 234 sites for Lissatrypa, 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
63 references- Some Silurian Brachiopods from Lithuania and their Palaeobiogeographical significance28
- Brachiopods of the Henryhouse Formation (Silurian) of Oklahoma22
- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian15
- The palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Siluro-Devonian sediments of the Tyers Area, Gippsland, Victoria15
- Daunton i nizhniy devon Zeravshano-Gissarskoy gornoy oblasti. The Downtonian and lower Devonian of the Zeravshan-Hissar mountain region.12
- The Silurian and Early Devonian Faunas of the Heathcote District, Victoria12
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska12
- Silurian brachiopods in a stromatoporoid bioherm11
- Brachiopod communities of the Lithuanian Silurian10
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region10
- Brachiopod and Conodont Distribution at the Wenlock - Ludlow boundary of Lithuania10
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America9
Each of the 282 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. 51 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 Lissatrypa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lissatrypa 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 itLissatrypinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Twenhofel 1914