Martinia elongata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MartiniaPBDB
- 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 least 5.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
34 occurrences of Martinia elongata 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
34 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Martinia elongata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Martinia elongata and its relatives
PermianWhere Martinia elongata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
407 taxa- Cleiothyridina subexpansa22 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis21 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis21 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis21 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi20 sites
- Chonetella nasuta19 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus19 sites
- Costiferina indica18 sites
- Notothyris subvesicularis17 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni17 sites
- Athyrella hybrida16 sites
- Cleiothyridina capillata16 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) typica16 sites
- Terebratuloidea davidsoni16 sites
- Athyris (Cleiothyridina) pectinifera venusta15 sites
- Notothyris warthi15 sites
- Spirigerella praelonga15 sites
- Hustedia grandicosta14 sites
- Martinia warthi14 sites
- Spiriferellina nasuta14 sites
- Spirigerella proxima14 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa14 sites
- Richthofenia lawrenciana13 sites
- Spirigerella grandis13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Martinia elongata, 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
5 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range26
- End-Permian mass extinction and palaeoenvironmental changes in Neotethys: Evidence from an oceanic carbonate section in southwestern Tibet3
- New fossils from the Productus Limestones of the Salt Range, with notes on other species2
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 22
- Guadalupian (Middle Permian) brachiopods from Sungai Toh, a Leptodus Shale locality in the central belt of peninsular Malaysia1
Each of the 34 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. 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 Martinia elongata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Martinia elongata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMartinia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1883