Coptothyris grayi

Coptothyris grayi

Th.Davidson · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
CoptothyrisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 15 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 7 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13.82 Mya774 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Coptothyris grayi on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

23 occurrences

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

14 formations

Moniwa — 38.22°N, 140.76°EMoniwa — 38.20°N, 140.85°ETaya — 39.72°N, 140.29°EOtsutsumi — 38.43°N, 140.85°EDaishaka — 40.76°N, 140.59°EShibikawa — 39.97°N, 139.85°EKitaura — 39.74°N, 140.23°ESugota — 39.35°N, 140.38°EAkaura — 37.04°N, 136.96°ESuenomatsuyama — 40.28°N, 141.30°EUtsuno — 38.62°N, 140.75°EYanagawa — 37.85°N, 140.62°EKubota — 37.03°N, 140.38°ESukegawa — 36.60°N, 140.64°EKoshima — 35.35°N, 139.64°E

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The named rock units Coptothyris grayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coptothyris grayi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Coptothyris grayi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Coptothyris grayi, 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

Each of the 23 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 Coptothyris grayi

Credit
Th.Davidson
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Coptothyris grayi 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.

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What may have been alongside itCoptothyris through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1852)