Hemiptychina inflata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemiptychinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
34 occurrences of Hemiptychina inflata 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
34 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Hemiptychina inflata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hemiptychina inflata and its relatives
PermianWhere Hemiptychina inflata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
477 taxa- Stenoscisma purdoni25 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis24 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa22 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa21 sites
- Terebratuloidea davidsoni19 sites
- Hemiptychina crebriplicata18 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi18 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis17 sites
- Notothyris subvesicularis16 sites
- Callispirina ornata15 sites
- Whitspakia problematica15 sites
- Cleiothyridina capillata14 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis14 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus14 sites
- Notothyris warthi14 sites
- Spiriferellina nasuta14 sites
- Costiferina indica13 sites
- Richthofenia lawrenciana13 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) typica12 sites
- Martinia semiplana12 sites
- Spirigerella praelonga12 sites
- Athyrella hybrida11 sites
- Athyris11 sites
- Productus (Haydenella) kiangsiensis tumida11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Hemiptychina inflata, 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
5 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range24
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 15
- Zeng et al., 19952
- Permian fossils of the Central Himalayas2
- Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda1
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
Media content1

Picture of Hemiptychina inflata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- 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 itHemiptychina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1882