Chascothyris

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RensselandiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Chascothyris 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Chascothyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chascothyris and its relatives
DevonianWhere Chascothyris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Archiacoceras1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Australophyllum1 site
- Columnaria1 site
- Cyrtospirifer1 site
- Dechenella (Dechenella) bathurstensis1 site
- Dechenella verneuili1 site
- Dendrostella1 site
- Desquamatia1 site
- Digonophyllum1 site
- Glosshypothyridina1 site
- Grypophyllum1 site
- Grypophyllum denckmanni1 site
- Ilmenia1 site
- Lazutkinia1 site
- Mesophyllum (Arcophyllum)1 site
- Minatothyris maureri1 site
- Paracyclas1 site
- Productella1 site
- Pseudomicroplasma1 site
- Schizoproetus dechenelloides1 site
- Stringocephalus1 site
- Undispirifer1 site
- Uturatuia laevigata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chascothyris, 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
3 references- Lower and Middle Devonian marine deposits of the Soviet arctic and the correlation with arctic Canada2
- Brakhiopody opornogo razreza pogranichnykh otlozhenii srednego i verkhnego Devona na vostochnom sklone Yuzhnogo Urala [Brachiopods from the reference section of the Middle/Upper Devonian boundary deposits on the eastern slope of the Southern Urals]1
- Rzhonsnitskaya, 19681
Each of the 4 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 Chascothyris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chascothyris was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itRensselandiinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.