Derbyia regularis

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
- DerbyiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
58 occurrences of Derbyia regularis 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
58 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Wargal Formation15
- Chhidru Formation7
- Amb Formation5
- Longtan Formation3
- Talata Formation3
- Huangzhishan Formation2
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The named rock units Derbyia regularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Derbyia regularis and its relatives
PermianWhere Derbyia regularis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
537 taxa- Spirigerella derbyi16 sites
- Costiferina indica14 sites
- Acosarina minuta13 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis12 sites
- Hustedia grandicosta11 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa10 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus10 sites
- Richthofenia lawrenciana10 sites
- Cleiothyridina capillata9 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis9 sites
- Athyrella hybrida8 sites
- Euphemites indicus8 sites
- Chonetella nasuta7 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis7 sites
- Leptodus nobilis7 sites
- Spiriferina (Spiriferellina) cristata commixta7 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni7 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa7 sites
- Athyris6 sites
- Athyris (Cleiothyridina) capillata pinguis6 sites
- Bellerophon6 sites
- Bellerophon triangularis6 sites
- Derbyia grandis6 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) ornata6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Derbyia regularis, 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
16 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range22
- Permskie brakhiopody Pay-Khoya (Inarticulata, Strophomenidae i Chonetidae)15
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 36
- Environmental and biotic turnover across the Permian-Triassic boundary on a shallow carbonate platform in western Zhejiang, South China2
- Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopods from South China. Part 1. Orthotetida, Orthida and Rhynchonellida2
- Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopods around the Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian boundary at the Meishan sections C and D, Changxing, south China1
- Changhsingian brachiopod faunas from Guiding, Guizhou1
- Lengwu Formation of Permian and its Brachiopod Fauna in Zhejiang Province1
- Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda1
- Brachiopoda1
- Permian brachiopods from southern Thailand1
- Permian fossils of the Shaksgam Valley1
Each of the 58 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. 4 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 Derbyia regularis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows 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 itDerbyia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1884)