Obnixia thaynesiana
No picture of Obnixia thaynesiana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Obnixia thaynesiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ObnixiaPBDB
- 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 most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
31 occurrences of Obnixia thaynesiana on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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
31 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Obnixia thaynesiana 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.
Obnixia thaynesiana and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Obnixia thaynesiana and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Aviculopecten boutwelli1 site
- Bakevellia1 site
- Holopea1 site
- Lenticidaris utahensis1 site
- Leptochondria occidanea1 site
- Monotis1 site
- Myalina1 site
- Myalinella postcarbonica1 site
- Myophoria1 site
- Myophoria ambilineata1 site
- Pectinida1 site
- Permophorus1 site
- Plicatula1 site
- Pteriidae1 site
- Tirolites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Obnixia thaynesiana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Early Triassic Terebratulid brachiopods from the western interior of the United States27
- Descriptions of new species of Carboniferous and Triassic fossils (from southeastern Idaho)2
- Recovery of benthic marine communities from the end-Permian mass extinction at the low latitudes of eastern Panthalassa1
- Geology and mineral resources of the Ivanpah quadrangle, California and Nevada1
Each of the 31 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
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No picture of Obnixia thaynesiana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Obnixia thaynesiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Obnixia thaynesiana 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 itObnixia through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1927)