Productidina
Productidina is a suborder of brachiopods containing the families:Superfamily Productoidea Family Productellidae Family Productidae Superfamily Echinoconchoidea Family Echinoconchidae Family Sentosiidae Superfamily Linoproductoidea Family Linoproductidae Family Monticuliferidae Family Shrenkiellidae

Mike Hosken · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- ProductidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 161 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 251.1 Mya.
12,000+ occurrences of Productidina on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
12,000 occurrences read- Devonian6%
- Carboniferous29%
- Permian64%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.
Found in
at least 774 formations
- Road Canyon Formation373
- Word Formation281
- Gerster Formation · Park City Group271
- Cathedral Mountain Formation267
- Changxing Formation227
- Skinner Ranch Formation224
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The named rock units Productidina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 750 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,040 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
717 taxa- Composita subtilita100 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari59 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina53 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer53 sites
- Derbyia48 sites
- Reticulatia huecoensis46 sites
- Hystriculina wabashensis44 sites
- Crurithyris expansa42 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis40 sites
- Crinoidea39 sites
- Hustedia mormoni39 sites
- Linipalus magnispinus37 sites
- Linoproductus prattenianus30 sites
- Chonetes mesoloba29 sites
- Meekella27 sites
- Punctospirifer kentuckensis24 sites
- Spirifer23 sites
- Crurithyris22 sites
- Rhombopora22 sites
- Antiquatonia portlockianus21 sites
- Derbyia crassa21 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa19 sites
- Lophophyllidium profundum19 sites
- Composita18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,074 sites for Productidina, 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
at least 607 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI1,855
- Permian Productidina and Strophalosiidina from the Sydney-Bowen Basin and New England Orogen: systematics and biostratigraphic significance562
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas438
- The biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Gerster Limestone (Upper Permian) in Nevada and Utah276
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the revised type section for the Takhandit Limestone (Permian) in east-central Alaska189
- Permian brachiopod faunas of central east Greenland189
- Artinskian-Kungurian (Early Permian) brachiopod faunas from the Tarim Basin, Northwest China, Part 1: Biostratigraphy and systematics of Productida188
- Stratigraphic and Paleontologic Studies of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Rocks in North-Central Texas184
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska169
- Permian brachiopods from central Oregon166
- T.D. Olszewski''s Ph.D. - Penn State University163
- Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas161
Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 595 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 Productidina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Mike Hosken
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Productidina 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProductida through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1883