Chilotrypa

Hibbard, R. R. · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- FistuliporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Fistuliporidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fistuliporidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Fistuliporidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.9 Mya to 426.7 Mya.
13 occurrences of Chilotrypa on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
13 occurrences- Ordovician8%
- Silurian92%
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
6 formations
- Rochester Shale Formation · Clinton Group6
- Rochester Formation · Clinton Group2
- Irondequoit Formation · Clinton Group2
- Irondequoit Limestone Formation · Clinton Group1
- Herkimer Formation · Clinton Group1
- Korgessaare Formation · Lyckholm Group1
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The named rock units Chilotrypa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chilotrypa and its relatives
SilurianWhere Chilotrypa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
195 taxa- Leptaena rhomboidalis12 sites
- Atrypa reticularis11 sites
- Dalmanites11 sites
- Whitfieldella nitida10 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis9 sites
- Enterolasma8 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus8 sites
- Cornellites7 sites
- Eodictyonella7 sites
- Fardenia (Coolinia)7 sites
- Favosites7 sites
- Fenestella7 sites
- Platyostoma niagarensis7 sites
- Trematospira7 sites
- Bumastus ioxus6 sites
- Hallopora elegantula6 sites
- Lichenalia concentrica6 sites
- Stegerhynchus6 sites
- Striispirifer niagarensis6 sites
- Amphistrophia striata5 sites
- Atrypina5 sites
- Cornulites5 sites
- Dalejina hybrida5 sites
- Dalmanella5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Chilotrypa, 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- Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology6
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York5
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America1
- The early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces1
Each of the 13 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 Chilotrypa
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Hibbard, R. R.
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFistuliporidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1884