Martiniopsis convexa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MartiniopsisPBDB
- 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 most 8.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 290.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Martiniopsis convexa 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Martiniopsis convexa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Martiniopsis convexa and its relatives
PermianWhere Martiniopsis convexa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Paramesolobus latesinuata2 sites
- Tiramnia uralica2 sites
- Alexenia gratiodentalis1 site
- Alphachoristites trautscholdi1 site
- Alphaneospirifer anshunensis1 site
- Anteridocus swallovianus1 site
- Beecheria1 site
- Brachythyrina1 site
- Brachythyrina rectangula1 site
- Brachythyris ufensis1 site
- Callispirina ornata1 site
- Cancrinella1 site
- Chaoiella gruenewaldti1 site
- Chonetinella uralica1 site
- Choristites1 site
- Choristites brachythyrisformis1 site
- Choristites pavlovi1 site
- Choristites wangchuchueni1 site
- Compressoproductus corniformis1 site
- Compressoproductus mongolicus1 site
- Costispinifera conspica1 site
- Dictyoclostus1 site
- Dielasma giganteum1 site
- Dielasma mapingensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Martiniopsis convexa, 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
2 references- The brachiopods and the boundary of Late Carboniferous-Early Permian in Longlin region, Guangxi1
- Late Carboniferous brachiopods from Yanji of Jilin, NE China1
Each of the 2 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 Martiniopsis convexa
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Martiniopsis convexa 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 itMartiniopsis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tschernyschew 1902