Paterina

Paterina is a genus of brachiopods known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 18 specimens of Paterina are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.03% of the community.

Paterina

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
PaterinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Paterinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Paterinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Paterinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Paterinata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 457.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 454 Mya.

Cambrian — about 87 of 88 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 88 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–535 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences535–532 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences532–529 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences529–526 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences526–523 Mya — about 1 occurrence523–520 Mya — about 1 occurrence520–517 Mya — about 2 occurrences517–514 Mya — about 12 occurrences514–511 Mya — about 25 occurrences511–508 Mya — about 18 occurrences508–505 Mya — about 11 occurrences505–502 Mya — about 3 occurrences502–499 Mya — about 4 occurrences499–496 Mya — about 6 occurrences496–493 Mya — about 1 occurrence493–491 Mya — about 1 occurrence491–488 Mya — about 1 occurrence488–485 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences521 Mya457.2 Mya540 Mya452 Mya

88 occurrences of Paterina on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

88 occurrences

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

30 formations

Forteau — 51.53°N, 56.83°WForteau — 50.98°N, 56.85°WForteau — 50.02°N, 56.61°WForteau — 51.65°N, 57.05°WBurgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WRiley — 30.64°N, 99.26°WRiley — 30.81°N, 98.28°WRiley — 30.91°N, 99.00°WRiley — 30.76°N, 99.41°WRiley — 30.54°N, 99.09°WKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.44°N, 75.12°WKinzers — 40.05°N, 76.36°WKinzers — 40.09°N, 76.35°WLower Comley — 52.54°N, 2.80°WLower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WShady — 36.85°N, 80.91°WShady — 36.85°N, 80.90°WLangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WMuav Limestone — 35.82°N, 113.65°WMuav Limestone — 35.99°N, 113.82°WStephen — 52.83°N, 119.25°WStephen — 51.40°N, 116.48°WPoleta — 37.50°N, 117.50°WPoleta — 37.82°N, 117.78°WLatham — 34.54°N, 115.48°WLatham — 35.03°N, 115.50°WMt. Whyte — 51.42°N, 116.45°WMt. Whyte — 50.90°N, 115.62°WScoresby Bay — 79.00°N, 82.00°WPreble — 38.87°N, 117.92°WParker Slate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WMonkton Quartzite — 44.54°N, 73.20°WMount Whyte — 52.83°N, 119.25°WCathedral Dolomite — 52.83°N, 119.25°WBright Angel — 35.99°N, 113.82°WCuslett — 46.00°N, 60.00°WFosters Point — 46.00°N, 60.00°WBaota — 32.00°N, 118.00°EPioche Shale — 36.19°N, 115.01°WBuelna — 30.42°N, 111.93°W

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The named rock units Paterina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Paterina and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Paterina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

472 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Paterina, 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

37 references

Each of the 88 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. 25 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 Paterina

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paterina 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Beecher 1891)