Camarotoechia
Searched as Camarotoechia acadiensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Camarotoechia as the accepted name.
Camarotoechia is an extinct genus of brachiopods found in Paleozoic strata.

Skye McDavid · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CamarotoechiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Camarotoechia 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
1 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
1 formation
- Miller Creek and Wentworth Station Formation · Windsor Group1
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The named rock units Camarotoechia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Camarotoechia and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Camarotoechia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
1,292 taxa- Spirifer84 sites
- Crinoidea52 sites
- Schuchertella51 sites
- Chonetes46 sites
- Lingula46 sites
- Tentaculites41 sites
- Fenestella40 sites
- Rhipidomella38 sites
- Mucrospirifer mucronatus35 sites
- Bryozoa30 sites
- Syringothyris30 sites
- Cyrtospirifer27 sites
- Productella27 sites
- Platyceras26 sites
- Cleiothyridina25 sites
- Orbiculoidea25 sites
- Atrypa23 sites
- Cornellites23 sites
- Favosites23 sites
- Protochonetes23 sites
- Nuculites21 sites
- Actinopteria19 sites
- Leptaena19 sites
- Leptagonia analoga19 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 656 sites for Camarotoechia, and this reads 240 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Camarotoechia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Skye McDavid
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCamarotoechiinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Clarke 1893