Athyris concentrica

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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 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
87 occurrences of Athyris concentrica 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
87 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
26 formations
- Portilla Formation19
- Candas Formation10
- Kowala Formation10
- Frasnian moyen Formation5
- Calcaire de Ferques Formation4
- Skaly Formation3
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The named rock units Athyris concentrica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Athyris concentrica and its relatives
DevonianWhere Athyris concentrica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
258 taxa- Cyrtina15 sites
- Crinoidea14 sites
- Chonetes13 sites
- Schizophoria striatula13 sites
- Aulacella12 sites
- Brachiopoda12 sites
- Aulacella interlineata11 sites
- Bryozoa11 sites
- Spinatrypa11 sites
- Cladochonus10 sites
- Crurithyris urei10 sites
- Fenestella10 sites
- Leptagonia analoga10 sites
- Omegops10 sites
- Ostracoda10 sites
- Punctospirifer10 sites
- Rhabdomeson10 sites
- Rugosa10 sites
- Whidbornella10 sites
- Gastropoda9 sites
- Rugosochonetes9 sites
- Schuchertella9 sites
- Spirorbis9 sites
- Atrythyris8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Athyris concentrica, 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
18 references- Devonian Athyrid Brachiopods from the Cantabrian Zone (NW Spain)31
- Brachiopod assemblages in the Devonian Kowala Formation of the Holy Cross Mountains10
- Oekologie und Fazies des juengsten Ober-Devon von Velbert (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)10
- Using GIS to unlock the interactions between biogeography, environment, and evolution in middle and Late Devonian brachiopods and bivalves9
- Homeomorphy between Devonian brachiopod communities in France and Iowa4
- Cyclic ecological replacement of brachiopod assemblages in the top-Eifelian Dobruchna Brachiopod Shale Member (Skały Formation) of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)3
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19883
- Rzhonsnitskaya, 19683
- Die devonischen Riffe im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge [The Devonian reefs of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge]3
- Brachiopodes du Devonien de Ferques (Boulonnais-France)2
- The sedimentology and palaeoecology of the Devonian of the Ferques inlier, northern France2
- A Late Devonian (Frasnian) bryozoan fauna from central Iran1
Each of the 87 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. 6 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 Athyris concentrica
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No 3D scan of Athyris concentrica 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 itAthyris through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Buch 1834)