Atrypa putilla

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtrypaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Atrypa putilla on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Atrypa putilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Atrypa putilla and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Atrypa putilla and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Lyellia thebesensis2 sites
- Metopolichas2 sites
- Thebesia thebesensis2 sites
- Zaphrenthis2 sites
- Brevilamnulella thebesensis1 site
- Calvinia edgewoodensis1 site
- Clathrodictyon vesiculosum1 site
- Cliftonia tubulistriata1 site
- Cryptothyrella ovoides1 site
- Cyclonema daytonensis1 site
- Cyphaspis1 site
- Dalmanella edgewoodensis1 site
- Delthyris1 site
- Eospirigerina putilla1 site
- Eunema fasciata1 site
- Leptaena aequalis1 site
- Paupospira thebesensis1 site
- Pterinea1 site
- Schuchertella propinqua1 site
- Stegerhynchus antiqua1 site
- Stegerhynchus concinna1 site
- Thebanaspis determinatus1 site
- Whitfieldella billingsana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Atrypa putilla, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Atrypa putilla
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Atrypa putilla 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 itAtrypa through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall and Clarke 1894)