Strophalosiidae

Not Strophalosiidae. This is Leptalosia ovalis Dunbar & Condra, 1932, a relative — both are Strophalosiidae.
Wagner, Steve · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- StrophalosioideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 133 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
1,581 occurrences of Strophalosiidae 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
1,581 occurrences- Devonian3%
- Carboniferous2%
- Permian95%
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
218 formations
- Senja Formation · Namlang Group98
- Buffel Formation87
- Blenheim Formation81
- Amb Formation69
- Cattle Creek Formation54
- Ingelara Formation53
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The named rock units Strophalosiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 194 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 124 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Strophalosiidae and its relatives
PermianWhere Strophalosiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,828 taxa- Marginalosia kalikotei52 sites
- Betaneospirifer ravaniformis27 sites
- Megasteges nepalensis27 sites
- Cleiothyridina24 sites
- Etheripecten24 sites
- Crinoidea21 sites
- Biplatyconcha grandis20 sites
- Leptalosia scintilla19 sites
- Bryozoa18 sites
- Heteralosia17 sites
- Marginalosia planata17 sites
- Nisalarinia nisalensis17 sites
- Spiriferella rajah17 sites
- Terrakea pollex17 sites
- Cleiothyridellina accoliformis16 sites
- Rhipidomella missouriensis16 sites
- Schuchertella lens16 sites
- Strophalosia16 sites
- Tylothyris16 sites
- Dielasma14 sites
- Fenestella14 sites
- Philhedra rowleyi14 sites
- Echinoidea13 sites
- Spiraculinella radiata13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,404 sites for Strophalosiidae, 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
161 references- Permian Productidina and Strophalosiidina from the Sydney-Bowen Basin and New England Orogen: systematics and biostratigraphic significance536
- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range114
- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI101
- Permian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from north-west Nepal66
- Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia47
- Studies on Western Australian Permian brachiopods 6. The genera Strophalosia King, 1844, Heteralosia King, 1938 and Echinalosia Waterhouse, 196730
- Foraminifera and their habitats within a cool-water carbonate succession following glaciation, Early Permian (Sakmarian), Western Australia28
- Late Palaeozoic Scyphozoa and Brachiopoda (Inarticulata, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, Australia24
- Monograph of the Permian fossils of England24
- Brachiopods from the Sappinton Formation (Devonian - Mississippian) of western Montana23
- Permian marine invertebrate macrofossils - GSQ Mundubbera 1122
- Strophomenoid brachiopods from the higher Permian faunas of the Back Creek Group in the Bowen Basin21
Each of the 1,581 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. 149 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 Leptalosia ovalis Dunbar & Condra, 1932
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Wagner, Steve
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Strophalosiidae was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itStrophalosioidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert 1913