Cleiothyridina
Cleiothyridina is an extinct genus of brachiopods.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CleiothyridininaePBDB
- 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 124 million years on record.
The record covers at least 379 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 383.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
1,716 occurrences of Cleiothyridina on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1,716 occurrences- Devonian4%
- Carboniferous30%
- Permian66%
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
254 formations
- Wargal Formation306
- Chhidru Formation143
- Amb Formation85
- Gerster Formation · Park City Group57
- Senja Formation · Namlang Group52
- Bangor Limestone Formation47
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The named rock units Cleiothyridina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 230 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 137 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cleiothyridina and its relatives
PermianWhere Cleiothyridina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
931 taxa- Fenestella96 sites
- Fistulipora82 sites
- Eumetria79 sites
- Archimedes67 sites
- Pentremites67 sites
- Composita60 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi58 sites
- Torynifer57 sites
- Echinoidea55 sites
- Tabulipora52 sites
- Dichocrinus50 sites
- Orthotetes50 sites
- Punctospirifer50 sites
- Polypora47 sites
- Rhombopora47 sites
- Spirifer46 sites
- Composita trinuclea45 sites
- Reticulariina45 sites
- Pterotocrinus44 sites
- Rhabdomeson44 sites
- Paladin42 sites
- Camptocrinus41 sites
- Bryozoa40 sites
- Aphelacrinus sp.39 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,241 sites for Cleiothyridina, 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
265 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range498
- The biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Gerster Limestone (Upper Permian) in Nevada and Utah57
- Permian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from north-west Nepal56
- The Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Lower Bangor Limestone (Chesterian, Mississippian)in northwestern Alabama47
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 246
- Athrididi Russkoi Platformi40
- Foraminifera and their habitats within a cool-water carbonate succession following glaciation, Early Permian (Sakmarian), Western Australia38
- Early Carboniferous brachiopod zones of eastern Australia35
- Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from the Banff Formation of Western Alberta33
- Invertebrate Fauna of the Golconda Formation (Middle Chester) of Indiana, Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois31
- Geology of the Three Forks Quadrangle, Montana30
- Stability of regional brachiopod diversity structure across the Mississippian/Pennsylvanian boundary27
Each of the 1,716 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. 253 further references are not listed. 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 Cleiothyridina
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Dwergenpaartje
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cleiothyridina 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.
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.
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What may have been alongside itCleiothyridininae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Buckman 1906)