Kyrtatrypa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtrypinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
9 occurrences of Kyrtatrypa 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
9 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Skaly Formation3
- Slivenec Limestone Formation · Branik Limestone Group2
- Skały Formation2
- Vinarice Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Kyrtatrypa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kyrtatrypa and its relatives
DevonianWhere Kyrtatrypa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Aulacella3 sites
- Caplinoplia3 sites
- Crurispina3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Desquamatia (Synatrypa) subzonata3 sites
- Devonaria3 sites
- Eoglossinotoechia cacuminata3 sites
- Metascutellum3 sites
- Oglu3 sites
- Parastrophonella3 sites
- Platyscutellum3 sites
- Plectodonta (Dalejodiscus)3 sites
- Poloniproductus3 sites
- Poroscutellum3 sites
- Pragoproetus menaniensis3 sites
- Xystostrophia umbraculum3 sites
- Athyris concentrica2 sites
- Bifida2 sites
- Bojocoryphe splendens2 sites
- Costisorthis2 sites
- Dagnachonetes2 sites
- Dalejeproetus dalejensis2 sites
- Eleutherokomma2 sites
- Gibbodouvillina interstrialis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Kyrtatrypa, 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
4 references- Cyclic ecological replacement of brachiopod assemblages in the top-Eifelian Dobruchna Brachiopod Shale Member (Skały Formation) of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)3
- The Lochkovian-Pragian boundary in the Lower Devonian of the Barrandian area (Czechoslovakia)3
- Kyrtatrypa pauli sp. nov., a key brachiopod species of post-Taghanic recovery faunas in the Middle Devonian (Givetian) of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland2
- Unterdevonische Brachiopoden aus dem hellen Crinoidenschutt- und Riffkalk der Seewarte (zentrale Karnische Alpen/Kärnten/Österreich)1
Each of the 9 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 Kyrtatrypa
- 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 itAtrypinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.