Monsardithyris

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- LissajousithyridinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lissajousithyrididae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lissajousithyrididae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Lissajousithyrididae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 180.4 Mya to 152.21 Mya.
124 occurrences of Monsardithyris on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
124 occurrencesThese 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
21 formations
- Dhruma Formation · Shaqra Group7
- Antalo Formation7
- Dhahab Formation · Azab Group6
- Mughanniyya Formation · Azab Group5
- Mont Grand Formation5
- Santa Linya Formation5
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The named rock units Monsardithyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 64 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Monsardithyris and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Monsardithyris and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
431 taxa- Cymatorhynchia quadriplicata16 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea15 sites
- Cymatorhynchia15 sites
- Daghanirhynchia13 sites
- Stroudithyris infraoolithica11 sites
- Tubithyris chouberti11 sites
- Cererithyris10 sites
- Plagiostoma10 sites
- Dorsoplicathyris dorsoplicata9 sites
- Zeilleria waltoni9 sites
- Parvirhynchia parvula8 sites
- Pholadomya lirata8 sites
- Stroudithyris stephanoides8 sites
- Ermoceras (Telermoceras) coronatoides7 sites
- Lissajousithyris matisconensis7 sites
- Pleurotomaria7 sites
- Rhynchonelloidea (Rhynchonelloidea) ruthenensis7 sites
- Somalirhynchia africana7 sites
- Acanthothiris spinosa6 sites
- Chlamys6 sites
- Globirhynchia subobsoleta6 sites
- Homoeorhynchia cynocephala6 sites
- Rhynchonellida6 sites
- Trichites6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Monsardithyris, 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
25 references- Les brachiopodes liasiques des Pyrénées: paléontologie, biostratigraphie, paléobiogéographie et paléoenvironnements19
- Les terebratulidae du Dogger dans le Mâconnais, le mont d'Or lyonnais et le Jura méridional: Étude systématique et biostratigraphique. Rapports avec la paléoécologie18
- Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the benthic macroinvertebrate fauna from the Middle Jurassic of northwestern Jordan14
- Les brachiopodes jurassiques moyens de la bordure vivaro-cévenole (Bassin du Sud-Est, France)11
- Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities7
- Les brachiopodes du Dogger des Pyrenees Navarro-Languedociennes (biostratigraphie et paleontologie)7
- Brachiopodes liasiques de la Bordure Sud du Massif Armoricain6
- Le Jurassique D`Arabie Centrale6
- Les Brachiopodes Toarciens de la Rampe Carbonatée de Tomar (Portugal)4
- Brachiopods from the "Calcari Oolitici di S. Vigilio" (Toarcian-Aalenian) and "Rosso Ammonitico" (Upper Bajocian) in the central Lessinian Alps (Province of Verona, Italy): a preliminary note4
- Paleontologie et paleoecologie de Parvirhynchia parvula (Deslongchamps), brachiopode recifal et perirecifal du Bajocien moyen [Paleontology and paleoecology of Parvirhynchia parvula (Deslongchamps), a Middle Bajocian reefal and perireefal brachiopod]4
- Brachiopodes toarciens de la coupe d’Aït Athmane, Haut Atlas centro-oriental (Maroc)3
Each of the 124 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. 13 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 Monsardithyris
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- 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 itLissajousithyridinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alméras 1970