Didymothyris didyma
No picture of Didymothyris didyma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Didymothyris didyma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DidymothyrisPBDB
- 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 8.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 431.2 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 433.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
34 occurrences of Didymothyris didyma 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
34 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
12 formations
- Paadla Formation6
- Mulde Beds Formation1
- Klinteberg Beds Formation1
- Hemse Beds Formation1
- Eke Beds Formation1
- Torgu Formation1
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The named rock units Didymothyris didyma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Didymothyris didyma and its relatives
SilurianWhere Didymothyris didyma and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
176 taxa- Protochonetes striatellus11 sites
- Howellella elegans8 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula6 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata5 sites
- Morinorhynchus crispus5 sites
- Proetus signatus5 sites
- Salopina conservatrix5 sites
- Atrypa reticularis4 sites
- Calymene4 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus4 sites
- Gypidula4 sites
- Janius barrandi4 sites
- Levenea canaliculata4 sites
- Parallelostroma4 sites
- Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni4 sites
- Syringoheliolites contrarius4 sites
- Syringopora4 sites
- Anastrophia deflexa3 sites
- Boucotinskia elongata3 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus3 sites
- Dalejina hybrida3 sites
- Desquamatia3 sites
- Didymothyris biohermica3 sites
- Encrinurus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Didymothyris didyma, 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
10 references- Brakhiopody Pentamerida i Spiriferida silura Estonii - Siluran Brachiopods Pentamerida and Spiriferida of Estonia13
- A review of Silurian brachiopods from Gotland5
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia4
- New Siluria Brachiopods of the family Athyrididae4
- Selected brachiopod and trilobite communities of the East Baltic Silurian2
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region2
- High-energy sedimentary events in lagoonal successions of the Upper Silurian of Podolia, Ukraine1
- The chief Wenlockian-Lochkovian benthic communities of the Vaigach to southern Novaya Zemlya region1
- Locality 6:7 Kogula Quarry1
- Communities and Biozones in the Baltic Silurian1
Each of the 34 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. 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
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No picture of Didymothyris didyma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Didymothyris didyma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Didymothyris didyma 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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What may have been alongside itDidymothyris through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalman 1828)