Gypidula pelagica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GypidulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
58 occurrences of Gypidula pelagica on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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 occurrencesThese 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
15 formations
- Roberts Mountain Formation6
- Garra Formation4
- Roberts Mountains Formation4
- Siyak Formation2
- Lochkov Formation1
- Bostów Formation1
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The named rock units Gypidula pelagica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gypidula pelagica and its relatives
DevonianWhere Gypidula pelagica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
446 taxa- Howellella31 sites
- Atrypa nieczlawiensis26 sites
- Mesodouvillina26 sites
- Schizophoria25 sites
- Cyrtina23 sites
- Ancillotoechia gutta21 sites
- Iridistrophia20 sites
- Nicollidina remscheidensis15 sites
- Tadschikia14 sites
- Nucleospira12 sites
- Favosites11 sites
- Acanthospirifer10 sites
- Strophonella10 sites
- Dalejina9 sites
- Orbiculoidea9 sites
- Protathyris9 sites
- Anastrophia (Grayina) magnifica8 sites
- Hebetoechia8 sites
- Skenidioides8 sites
- Tryplasma8 sites
- Cladopora7 sites
- Cymostrophia7 sites
- Dicaelosia nitida7 sites
- Eoschuchertella7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Gypidula pelagica, 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
20 references- Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) biostratigraphy and brachiopod faunas, Canadian arctic islands19
- Pridolian and early Gedinnian age brachiopods from the Roberts Mountains Formation of central Nevada10
- Lower Devonian Gastropoda from the Canadian Arctic Islands4
- Tien-Shan4
- The Garra Formation (Early Devonian: Late Lochkovian) between Cumnock and Larras Lee, New South Wales, Australia: stratigraphic and structural setting, faunas, and community sequence3
- Early Devonian benthic communities of the Alexander Terrane, southeastern Alaska2
- Poland2
- Southern Urals2
- New Athyridids (Brachiopoda) frоm the Lоwеr Devonian of Еаstеrп Yakutia1
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia1
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)1
- Wenlockian to Pragian brachiopod communities of the northern Canadian Cordillera1
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. 8 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 Gypidula pelagica
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gypidula pelagica 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 itGypidula through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1947)