Brachythyris chouteauensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachythyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Brachythyris chouteauensis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
23 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
8 formations
- Chappel Limestone Formation9
- Banff Formation7
- Besa River Formation2
- Chapin Formation1
- Maynes Creek Formation1
- St. Joe Formation1
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The named rock units Brachythyris chouteauensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachythyris chouteauensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Brachythyris chouteauensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
241 taxa- Eomartiniopsis girtyi8 sites
- Ovatia8 sites
- Reticularia cooperensis8 sites
- Schizophoria8 sites
- Spirifer8 sites
- Cranaena texana7 sites
- Dielasma7 sites
- Fusella llanoensis7 sites
- Hamburgia chappelensis7 sites
- Rhynchopora sansabensis7 sites
- Sedenticellula sacra7 sites
- Tylothyris brevaurita7 sites
- Amesopleura texana6 sites
- Coledium evexum6 sites
- Coledium undulatum6 sites
- Crassumbo inornatus6 sites
- Crurithyris parva6 sites
- Geniculifera brevicula6 sites
- Productina sampsoni6 sites
- Acanthoplecta inopinata5 sites
- Athyris bradyensis5 sites
- Cleiothyridina5 sites
- Cyphotalosia masonensis5 sites
- Plectospira problematica5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Brachythyris chouteauensis, 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
8 references- Mississippian brachiopods from the Chappel Limestone of central Texas9
- Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from the Banff Formation of Western Alberta6
- Mississippian succession in South Nahanni River area, Northwest Territories2
- The Stratigraphy of the Kinderhook Series of Iowa2
- Tournaisian (Early Osagean) brachiopods from a bioherm in the St. Joe Formation near Kenwood, Oklahoma1
- New genera and species of Early Mississippian brachiopods from the Burlington Limestone1
- Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta1
- Mississippian crinoid fauna from the Banff Formation, Sunwapta Pass, Alberta1
Each of the 23 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
Media content1

Picture of Brachythyris chouteauensis
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Brachythyris chouteauensis 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 itBrachythyris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weller 1909)