Marginifera

Marginifera is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Productida. Specimens have been found in Carboniferous to Triassic beds in Asia, Europe, Madagascar, and North America.

Marginifera

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MarginiferiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 759 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 51 of 759 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 707 of 759 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 759 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–350 Mya — about 1 occurrence350–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–339 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–331 Mya — about 1 occurrence331–327 Mya — about 3 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 4 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 1 occurrence312–309 Mya — about 7 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 8 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 10 occurrences301–298 Mya — about 13 occurrences298–294 Mya — about 15 occurrences294–290 Mya — about 8 occurrences290–286 Mya — about 18 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 22 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 39 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 42 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 42 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 42 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 139 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 44 occurrences260–256 Mya — about 142 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 128 occurrences253–249 Mya — about 20 occurrences351.9 Mya254.14 Mya361 Mya249 Mya

759 occurrences of Marginifera 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

759 occurrences

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

122 formations

Wargal — 32.74°N, 71.73°EWargal — 32.78°N, 71.65°EWargal — 32.21°N, 71.06°EWargal — 32.51°N, 71.82°EWargal — 32.55°N, 71.78°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.96°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.53°N, 72.21°EWargal — 32.39°N, 72.14°EWargal — 32.75°N, 71.72°EWargal — 32.40°N, 72.15°EWargal — 32.97°N, 71.56°EWargal — 32.21°N, 70.91°EWargal — 32.27°N, 71.13°EWargal — 32.57°N, 72.41°EWargal — 32.52°N, 72.30°EWargal — 32.43°N, 72.28°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.72°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.73°N, 71.63°EWargal — 32.88°N, 71.57°EWargal — 33.00°N, 71.53°EWargal — 32.65°N, 72.58°EWargal — 32.24°N, 71.15°EWargal — 32.51°N, 71.33°EAmb — 32.51°N, 71.93°EAmb — 32.60°N, 71.76°EAmb — 32.55°N, 71.78°EAmb — 32.64°N, 72.58°EAmb — 32.54°N, 72.40°EAmb — 32.75°N, 71.71°EAmb — 32.25°N, 71.14°EAmb — 32.22°N, 71.01°EAmb — 32.65°N, 72.58°EAmb — 32.57°N, 72.41°EAmb — 32.43°N, 72.10°EAmb — 32.40°N, 72.17°EAmb — 32.62°N, 72.78°EAmb — 32.75°N, 71.71°EAmb — 32.72°N, 71.75°EAmb — 32.26°N, 71.15°EChhidru — 32.51°N, 71.93°EChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.20°N, 71.06°EChhidru — 32.45°N, 71.98°EChhidru — 32.45°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.45°N, 72.05°EChhidru — 32.27°N, 71.13°EChhidru — 32.78°N, 71.65°EChhidru — 32.56°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.15°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.10°EChhidru — 32.72°N, 71.75°EChhidru — 32.97°N, 71.57°ECathedral Mountain — 30.37°N, 103.18°WCathedral Mountain — 30.29°N, 103.30°WCathedral Mountain — 30.33°N, 103.22°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.12°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.19°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.12°WWord — 30.37°N, 103.26°WGymnocodiacean Limestones — 38.53°N, 26.10°ERat Buri — 13.98°N, 99.36°ERat Buri — 8.48°N, 98.53°ERat Buri — 7.38°N, 99.30°ERat Buri — 13.53°N, 99.70°ECoyote Butte — 43.98°N, 119.77°WCoyote Butte — 43.92°N, 119.88°WCoyote Butte — 43.94°N, 119.79°WCoyote Butte — 44.00°N, 119.73°WKeziliqiman — 37.83°N, 76.80°EQipan — 37.60°N, 76.78°EForaker Limestone — 39.27°N, 96.44°WForaker Limestone — 39.17°N, 96.55°WForaker Limestone — 39.85°N, 95.67°WForaker Limestone — 39.14°N, 96.31°WForaker Limestone — 39.38°N, 96.40°WForaker Limestone — 38.91°N, 96.06°WForaker Limestone — 38.81°N, 96.08°WMaping — 24.70°N, 105.22°ESkinner Ranch — 30.29°N, 103.30°WSkinner Ranch — 30.38°N, 103.20°WSkinner Ranch — 30.22°N, 103.40°WAntimonio — 30.77°N, 112.60°WQixia — 30.18°N, 106.81°EQixia — 30.03°N, 109.65°EQixia — 26.04°N, 105.01°EQixia — 26.00°N, 105.09°EQixia — 28.51°N, 112.15°EQixia — 24.85°N, 107.68°EChangxing — 30.30°N, 106.85°EChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 28.91°N, 106.89°EKapp Starostin — 78.09°N, 13.81°EGymnocodiacean Limestone — 38.53°N, 26.13°ETumenling — 44.77°N, 127.29°ETumenling — 47.72°N, 128.62°EWegener Halvo — 71.61°N, 22.37°WWegener Halvo — 71.68°N, 22.64°WWegener Halvo — 74.02°N, 21.48°WWegener Halvo — 74.03°N, 21.70°WZhesi — 42.67°N, 110.47°EZhesi — 42.65°N, 110.47°EBone Spring — 31.33°N, 104.87°WBone Spring — 31.46°N, 104.89°WBone Spring — 31.54°N, 105.01°WBone Spring — 31.24°N, 104.76°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 34.55°N, 111.24°WKaibab — 34.52°N, 111.33°WLiangshan — 30.18°N, 106.81°ELiangshan — 24.70°N, 105.22°E

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The named rock units Marginifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 98 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 108 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Marginifera and its relatives

Permian

Where Marginifera and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 602 sites for Marginifera, 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

105 references

Each of the 759 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. 93 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 Marginifera

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Waagen 1884)