Delthyris

Delthyris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DelthyridinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 112 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.5 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 204 occurrencesSilurian — about 155 of 204 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 39 of 204 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 9 of 204 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 204 occurrences448–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences443–438 Mya — about 4 occurrences438–433 Mya — about 4 occurrences433–428 Mya — about 27 occurrences428–423 Mya — about 47 occurrences423–418 Mya — about 78 occurrences418–413 Mya — about 11 occurrences413–408 Mya — about 3 occurrences408–403 Mya — about 3 occurrences403–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–382 Mya — about 9 occurrences382–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–367 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences367–362 Mya — about 1 occurrence362–357 Mya — about 3 occurrences357–352 Mya — about 3 occurrences352–347 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences347–342 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences342–337 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences337–332 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences332–326 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences326–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences321–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.1 Mya330.3 Mya448 Mya296 Mya

204 occurrences of Delthyris 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

204 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

89 formations

Henryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 35.00°N, 97.00°WHenryhouse — 34.60°N, 97.03°WHenryhouse — 34.62°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.66°N, 96.68°WHenryhouse — 34.77°N, 96.67°WHenryhouse — 34.68°N, 96.76°WCanon de Caballeros — 23.77°N, 99.27°WLapes — 55.25°N, 23.15°ELapes — 54.65°N, 23.03°ELapes — 55.22°N, 23.87°ELapes — 55.27°N, 24.81°EKaugatuma — 58.25°N, 22.57°EKaugatuma — 58.29°N, 22.80°EKaugatuma — 58.00°N, 22.03°EKaugatuma — 58.12°N, 22.19°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EHemse Beds — 57.31°N, 18.37°EMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.05°N, 77.52°WMahantango — 39.25°N, 78.86°WNew Albany Shale — 38.50°N, 85.59°WNew Albany Shale — 38.67°N, 85.67°WNew Albany Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WRoberts Mountain — 39.84°N, 116.35°WRoberts Mountain — 39.95°N, 116.31°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°ESkala — 49.58°N, 23.90°ESkala — 49.02°N, 25.80°EDzwinogorod Beds — 49.08°N, 25.40°EDzwinogorod Beds — 49.02°N, 25.80°EStonehouse — 45.62°N, 61.97°WStonehouse — 45.70°N, 62.10°WSteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°ETaemas — 34.95°S, 148.82°ETaemas — 34.94°S, 148.82°ERead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 75.02°N, 96.40°WMinija — 55.08°N, 25.42°EKeyser Limestone — 39.64°N, 77.66°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.45°N, 91.05°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.37°N, 90.90°WCoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EBoola Beds — 38.15°S, 146.47°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°E

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The named rock units Delthyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 65 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Delthyris and its relatives

Silurian

Where Delthyris and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,544 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 177 sites for Delthyris, 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

72 references

Each of the 204 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. 60 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 Delthyris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Delthyris 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalman 1828)