Buchanathyris
No picture of Buchanathyris 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 Buchanathyris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DidymothyridinaePBDB
- 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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
15 occurrences of Buchanathyris 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
15 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
5 formations
- Tabberabbera Formation · Wentworth Group10
- Buchan Caves Limestone Formation · Buchan Group2
- Garra Formation1
- Taravale Mudstone Formation · Buchan Group1
- Cavan Formation · Murrumbidgee Group1
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The named rock units Buchanathyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Buchanathyris and its relatives
DevonianWhere Buchanathyris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Tentaculites6 sites
- Spinella buchanensis4 sites
- Thamnopora4 sites
- Acanthophyllum3 sites
- Chalcidophyllum3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Howittia3 sites
- Protochonetes3 sites
- Syringopora3 sites
- Aulacella2 sites
- Calceola sandalina2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Coelospira2 sites
- Conocardium2 sites
- Cymostrophia2 sites
- Cyrtina2 sites
- Dolabra unilateralis2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Hysterolites2 sites
- Hysterolites piger2 sites
- Isorthis2 sites
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)2 sites
- Modiomorpha2 sites
- Modiomorpha quadrula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Buchanathyris, 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
4 references- The Devonian of the Mitchell and Wentworth Rivers8
- Silurian-Middle Devonian5
- Lower Devonian pelecypods from southeastern Australia1
- The Garra Formation (Early Devonian: Late Lochkovian) between Cumnock and Larras Lee, New South Wales, Australia: stratigraphic and structural setting, faunas, and community sequence1
Each of the 15 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 content0
No picture of Buchanathyris 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 Buchanathyris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Buchanathyris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDidymothyridinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Talent 1956