Gypidulina

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
- GypidulinaePBDB
- 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 50 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
30 occurrences of Gypidulina 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
30 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
12 formations
- Attawapiskat Formation9
- Lithograph City Formation · Cedar Valley Group2
- Denay Limestone Formation1
- Daleje-Třebotov Formation1
- Ust'irgisla Formation1
- Siyak Formation1
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The named rock units Gypidulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gypidulina and its relatives
DevonianWhere Gypidulina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
214 taxa- Gypidula4 sites
- Merista4 sites
- Lissatrypa3 sites
- Spirigerina supramarginalis3 sites
- Alaskospira2 sites
- Allanella2 sites
- Athyris2 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) hedei2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Cerasina discoidalis2 sites
- Cingulodermis2 sites
- Clorinda2 sites
- Clorinda parvolinguifera2 sites
- Cranaena2 sites
- Desquamatia (Independatrypa)2 sites
- Erilevigatella euthylomata2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Gypidula akimiskiformis2 sites
- Isorthis2 sites
- Neomphyma2 sites
- Parastrophinella2 sites
- Pentameroides septentrionalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Gypidulina, 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
13 references- Lower and Middle Devonian Brachiopod-Dominated Communities of Nevada, and Their Position in a Biofacies-Province-Realm Model9
- Early Silurian brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec5
- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian4
- The brachiopod succession of the Late Givetian-Frasnian of Iowa2
- Southern Urals2
- Epibiont relationships on hyolithids demonstrated by Ordovician trepostomes (Bryozoa) and Devonian tabulates (Anthozoa)1
- Devonian Transgressive-Regressive Cycles and Biostratigraphy, Northern Antelope Range, Nevada: Establishment of Reference Horizons for Global Cycles1
- Zonal subdivision of Early-Middle Devonian reef deposits of the Urals based on conodonts and brachiopods1
- Sedimentology, benthic communities, and brachiopods in the Suchomasty (Dalejan) and Acanthopyge (Eifelian) Limestones of the Koneprusy area (Czechoslovakia)1
- The Devonian of Celtiberia (Spain) and Devonian paleogeography of SW Europe1
- Northern Urals1
- Rzhonsnitskaya, 19681
Each of the 30 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. 1 further reference is 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 Gypidulina
- 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 itGypidulinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rzhonsnitzkaya 1956