Marginifera

Searched as Marginifera pusilla mapingensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Marginifera as the accepted name.

Marginifera is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Productida. Specimens have been found in Carboniferous to Triassic beds in Asia, Europe, Madagascar, and North America.

Marginifera

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
MarginiferiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 293.52 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 6 occurrencesPermian304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304.2 Mya293 Mya

6 occurrences of Marginifera 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

6 occurrences

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

1 formation

Maping — 24.70°N, 105.22°E

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The named rock units Marginifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Marginifera and its relatives

Permian

Where Marginifera and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 602 sites for Marginifera, and this reads 240 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

1 reference

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Marginifera

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Marginifera was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMarginiferini through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1884)