Athyris bisulcata

No picture of Athyris bisulcata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Athyris bisulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AthyrisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPermian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPermian384–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences381–377 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences377–373 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences373–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372.15 Mya283.3 Mya384 Mya272 Mya

3 occurrences of Athyris bisulcata 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

3 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

2 formations

Frasnian moyen — 50.13°N, 5.18°EFrasnian moyen — 50.35°N, 5.47°EQixia — 31.50°N, 117.85°E

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The named rock units Athyris bisulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Athyris bisulcata and its relatives

Devonian

Where Athyris bisulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Athyris bisulcata, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 Athyris bisulcata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Athyris bisulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Athyris bisulcata 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.

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What may have been alongside itAthyris through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jin and Hu 1982