Martinia semiplana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MartiniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
50 occurrences of Martinia semiplana 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
50 occurrences- Carboniferous2%
- Permian98%
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
11 formations
- Wargal Formation20
- Chhidru Formation7
- Changxing Formation2
- Sungai Toh Formation1
- Marta Formation1
- Douling Formation1
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The named rock units Martinia semiplana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Martinia semiplana and its relatives
PermianWhere Martinia semiplana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
680 taxa- Cleiothyridina subexpansa28 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi25 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni22 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis21 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus20 sites
- Spirigerella praelonga20 sites
- Costiferina indica19 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis19 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis18 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa18 sites
- Terebratuloidea davidsoni17 sites
- Cleiothyridina capillata16 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) typica16 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi acuteplicata16 sites
- Spirigerella proxima16 sites
- Athyrella hybrida15 sites
- Callispirina ornata15 sites
- Notothyris subvesicularis15 sites
- Spirigerella grandis15 sites
- Spirigerella obovata15 sites
- Spirigerella ovoidalis15 sites
- Spiriferellina nasuta14 sites
- Athyris13 sites
- Cleiothyridina accola13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Martinia semiplana, 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
16 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range29
- Guadalupian brachiopods from Djebel Tebaga de Medenine, south Tunisia4
- Changhsingian brachiopod assemblage sequence in Zhongliang Hill, Chongqing2
- New fossils from the Productus Limestones of the Salt Range, with notes on other species2
- Permian fossils of the Central Himalayas2
- End-Permian mass extinction and palaeoenvironmental changes in Neotethys: Evidence from an oceanic carbonate section in southwestern Tibet1
- Earliest Wuchiapingian (Lopingian, Late Permian) brachiopods in southern Hunan, south China: implications for the pre-Lopingian crisis and onset of Lopingian recovery/radiation1
- Brachiopods from the Upper Permian Takakurayama Formation, Abukuma Mountains, northeast Japan1
- Guadalupian (Middle Permian) brachiopods from Sungai Toh, a Leptodus Shale locality in the central belt of peninsular Malaysia1
- Late Permian brachiopods from the Crimean Mountains1
- Middle Permian brachiopods from Hiyomo, Mino Belt, central Japan: their provincial relationships with North America1
- Permian fossils of the Shaksgam Valley1
Each of the 50 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. 4 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 Martinia semiplana
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No 3D scan of Martinia semiplana 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMartinia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1883)