Notothyris djoulfensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NotothyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- 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.
40 occurrences of Notothyris djoulfensis 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
40 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
7 formations
- Wargal Formation20
- Akhura Formation6
- Julfa Formation3
- Chhidru Formation3
- Khachik Formation1
- Changxing Formation1
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The named rock units Notothyris djoulfensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Notothyris djoulfensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Notothyris djoulfensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
509 taxa- Cleiothyridina subexpansa20 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis18 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi18 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni18 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis17 sites
- Spirigerella ovoidalis16 sites
- Terebratuloidea davidsoni16 sites
- Athyrella hybrida15 sites
- Hustedia grandicosta15 sites
- Notothyris subvesicularis15 sites
- Chonetella nasuta14 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis14 sites
- Notothyris warthi14 sites
- Richthofenia lawrenciana14 sites
- Cleiothyridina capillata13 sites
- Costiferina indica13 sites
- Spirigerella grandis13 sites
- Spirigerella proxima13 sites
- Araxathyris timorensis12 sites
- Hemiptychina crebriplicata12 sites
- Terebratuloidea depressa12 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) typica11 sites
- Martinia warthi11 sites
- Spiriferina (Spiriferellina) cristata commixta11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Notothyris djoulfensis, 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
8 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range21
- Kotlyar et al., 19837
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 16
- On the character of the boundary of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic near Djulfa2
- End-Permian mass extinction and palaeoenvironmental changes in Neotethys: Evidence from an oceanic carbonate section in southwestern Tibet1
- Late Changxingian brachiopods from Huatang of Chenxian County, southern Hunan1
- The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary1
- Abich, 18781
Each of the 40 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 Notothyris djoulfensis
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No 3D scan of Notothyris djoulfensis 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 itNotothyris through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Abich 1878)