Productella

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
- ProductellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 82 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
425 occurrences of Productella 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
425 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
99 formations
- Triangle Formation · Sonyea Group35
- Glen Aubrey Formation · Sonyea Group26
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group22
- Three Forks Shale Formation20
- Shell Rock Formation · Cedar Valley Group18
- Frasnian moyen Formation18
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The named rock units Productella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 75 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Productella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Productella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
909 taxa- Crinoidea63 sites
- Camarotoechia57 sites
- Leiorhynchus56 sites
- Cyrtospirifer54 sites
- Ambocoelia50 sites
- Schizophoria50 sites
- Mucrospirifer44 sites
- Douvillina43 sites
- Cyrtina41 sites
- Rhipidomella38 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)38 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta37 sites
- Athyris35 sites
- Spinatrypa32 sites
- Atrypa31 sites
- Bryozoa31 sites
- Actinopteria29 sites
- Chonetes29 sites
- Spirifer28 sites
- Schuchertella26 sites
- Tylothyris26 sites
- Cypricardella25 sites
- Fenestella21 sites
- Eoschizodus20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 352 sites for Productella, and this reads 240 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
87 references- Using GIS to unlock the interactions between biogeography, environment, and evolution in middle and Late Devonian brachiopods and bivalves91
- Quantitative community analysis: Recurrent group and cluster techniques applied to the fauna of the Upper Devonian Sonyea Group, New York61
- Geology of the Three Forks Quadrangle, Montana19
- The last toothed Productellinae in Europe (Brachiopoda, Upper Devonian)17
- Brachiopod assemblages in the Devonian of Ferques (Boulonnais, France). Relations to palaeoenvironments and global eustatic curves.14
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis11
- Faunal and Lithologic Cyclicity in the Centerfield Member (Middle Devonian: Hamilton Group) of Western New York: A Reinterpretation of Depositional History11
- The sedimentology and palaeoecology of the Devonian of the Ferques inlier, northern France9
- The brachiopod succession of the Late Givetian-Frasnian of Iowa8
- Redefinition, Stratigraphy and Depostional Environments of the Mottville Member (Hamilton Group) in Central and Eastern New York8
- Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores8
- New Asteropyginae (Trilobita) from the Devonian of Afghanistan8
Each of the 425 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. 75 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 Productella
- 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 itProductellinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.