Martiniidae
Not Martiniidae. This is Eomartiniopsis Sokolskaïa, 1941, a relative — both are Martiniidae.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center · 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
- MartinioideaPBDB
- 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 174 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
953 occurrences of Martiniidae 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
953 occurrences- Silurianunder 1%
- Devonian1%
- Carboniferous16%
- Permian82%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
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
201 formations
- Wargal Formation85
- Chhidru Formation35
- Changxing Formation34
- Bell Canyon Formation32
- Cathedral Mountain Formation29
- Dalong Formation25
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The named rock units Martiniidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 177 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 168 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Martiniidae and its relatives
PermianWhere Martiniidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
2,389 taxa- Martinia58 sites
- Linoproductus34 sites
- Dielasma32 sites
- Composita29 sites
- Spirifer29 sites
- Phricodothyris27 sites
- Derbyia25 sites
- Martinia contracta23 sites
- Eomarginifera22 sites
- Productus20 sites
- Chonetes19 sites
- Hustedia19 sites
- Brachythyris18 sites
- Cleiothyridina18 sites
- Martinia glabra18 sites
- Martinia rhomboidalis18 sites
- Avonia17 sites
- Eomartiniopsis17 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi16 sites
- Crurithyris15 sites
- Dictyoclostus15 sites
- Fenestella15 sites
- Ovatia15 sites
- Schizophoria resupinata15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 703 sites for Martiniidae, 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
207 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range124
- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI83
- The Geology of the Glass Mountains, Texas, Part II, Faunal summary and correlation of the Permian formations with description of Brachiopoda38
- La Fauna dei Calcari Con Fusulina della Valle del Fiume Sosio nella Provincia di Palermo, Brachiopoda32
- The brachiopods and the boundary of Late Carboniferous-Early Permian in Longlin region, Guangxi22
- The Permian of Mongolia18
- Zeng et al., 199515
- The Paleontology of the Beech Creek (Chester) Limestone of Indiana15
- Permian brachiopods from Karakorum (Pakistan), Pt 313
- Lower Permian brachiopods and molluscs from the upper Jungle Creek Formation, northern Yukon Territory, Canada13
- Yang et al., 198713
- Permian Brachiopoda of the Pamir13
Each of the 953 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. 195 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 Eomartiniopsis Sokolskaïa, 1941
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center
- 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 itMartinioidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1883