Martinia nucula

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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 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
16 occurrences of Martinia nucula 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
16 occurrences- Carboniferous6%
- Permian94%
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
6 formations
- Wardak Formation5
- Tahaqi Formation1
- Chandalaz Formation1
- Tumenling Formation1
- Longlin Formation1
- Changxing Formation1
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The named rock units Martinia nucula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Martinia nucula and its relatives
PermianWhere Martinia nucula and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Permundaria5 sites
- Uncinunellina timorensis5 sites
- Waagenoconcha (Gruntoconcha) abichi5 sites
- Choristitella wynnei4 sites
- Enteletes tschernyscheffi4 sites
- Spirifer deroissyi4 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni4 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa4 sites
- Elivina tibetana3 sites
- Hemiptychina inflata3 sites
- Hemiptychina sparsiplicata3 sites
- Leptodus3 sites
- Leptodus nobilis3 sites
- Martinia acutomarginalis3 sites
- Martinia semiplana3 sites
- Notothyris triplicata3 sites
- Paracaninia similis3 sites
- Pleramplexus3 sites
- Plerophyllum3 sites
- Pseudophillipsia sumatrensis3 sites
- Reticularia lineata3 sites
- Retimarginifera lapparenti3 sites
- Rostranteris mediterraneum3 sites
- Stenoscisma gigantea3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Martinia nucula, 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
10 references- Monographie du Permo-Carbonifère de Wardak (Afghanistan Central)5
- Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda2
- Permian fossils of the Central Himalayas2
- Devonian-Carboniferous brachiopod zonation in the Tarim Basin, northwest China: implications for biostratigraphy and biogeography.1
- Zeng et al., 19951
- The brachiopods and the boundary of Late Carboniferous-Early Permian in Longlin region, Guangxi1
- Permiskie brakhiopodi yujnogo Primoriya1
- Zur Stratigraphie von Portugiesisch Timor1
- The Permocarboniferous fauna of Chitichun No. 11
- Die Perm-, Trias- und Jura-Formation auf Timor und Rotti im Indischen Archipel1
Each of the 16 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 nucula
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. Rothpletz 1892