Martinia
Searched as Martinia cf. semiplana sinosa. The Paleobiology Database treats Martinia as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MartiniinaePBDB
- 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 most 6.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Martinia 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 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Martinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Martinia and its relatives
PermianWhere Martinia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
2,297 taxa- Dielasma39 sites
- Linoproductus33 sites
- Derbyia32 sites
- Phricodothyris26 sites
- Composita25 sites
- Spirifer25 sites
- Astegosia subquadrata24 sites
- Ombonia guadalupensis23 sites
- Productus22 sites
- Composita affinis20 sites
- Eomarginifera20 sites
- Hustedia20 sites
- Chonetes18 sites
- Reticulariina18 sites
- Cleiothyridina17 sites
- Paraspiriferina billingsi17 sites
- Tropidelasma gregarium17 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi16 sites
- Brachythyris16 sites
- Fenestella16 sites
- Dictyoclostus15 sites
- Hustedia opsia15 sites
- Sarganostega pressa15 sites
- Angiospirifer bisulcatus14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 552 sites for Martinia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Martinia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Martinia 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 itMartiniinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (M'Coy 1844)