Austrothyris grandis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AustrothyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stethothyridinae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Stethothyridinae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Stethothyridinae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 774 ka.
9 occurrences of Austrothyris grandis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
9 occurrences- Eocene22%
- Miocene11%
- Pleistocene67%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Austrothyris grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Austrothyris grandis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Austrothyris grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Cancellothyris ascotensis2 sites
- Magellania flavescens2 sites
- Megerlina irenae2 sites
- Adnatida gnangarensis1 site
- Anakinetica recta1 site
- Austrothyris macleani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Austrothyris grandis, 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
3 references- The brachiopod fauna of the Plio-Pleistocene Ascot Formation, Perth Basin, Western Australia6
- The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of the Bremer and Eucla Basins, southwest Western Australia2
- A reappraisal of the systematics of the Stethothyris group of brachiopods from the Cenozoic of New Zealand and Australia1
Each of the 9 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 Austrothyris grandis 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 Austrothyris grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Austrothyris grandis 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 itAustrothyris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tate 1880)