Martinothyris
No picture of Martinothyris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Martinothyris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MartinothyridinaePBDB
- 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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Martinothyris on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
6 occurrences- Devonian67%
- Carboniferous33%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Martinothyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Martinothyris and its relatives
DevonianWhere Martinothyris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Atylephorus tornacensis3 sites
- Cleiothyridina3 sites
- Dielasma3 sites
- Guilinospirifer3 sites
- Mucrospirifer3 sites
- Neopolygnathus communis3 sites
- Polygnathus3 sites
- Protognathodus kockeli3 sites
- Schizophoria resupinata3 sites
- Siphonodella3 sites
- Syringothyris3 sites
- Yanguania3 sites
- Actinoconchus2 sites
- Bairdia2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Crurithysis aff. lunievensis2 sites
- Elivellinae2 sites
- Palaeolima2 sites
- Palmatolepis2 sites
- Posidonia2 sites
- Protognathodus meischneri2 sites
- Pseudopolygnathus2 sites
- Pterinopecten2 sites
- Semiproductus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Martinothyris, 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
2 references- Devonian-Carboniferous Carbonates around Guilin, South China: Stratigraphy and Sedimentology5
- Devonian and Lower Carboniferous brachiopods and bivalves from western Libya1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Martinothyris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Martinothyris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Martinothyris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMartinothyridinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.