Martiniopsis inflata

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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 least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
18 occurrences of Martiniopsis inflata 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
18 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
9 formations
- Khachik Formation4
- Lugu Formation4
- Gnishik Formation2
- Chhidru Formation2
- Paoshui Formation2
- Senja Formation · Namlang Group1
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The named rock units Martiniopsis inflata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Martiniopsis inflata and its relatives
PermianWhere Martiniopsis inflata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Neochonetes (Huangichonetes) asseretoi5 sites
- Dielasma itaitubense4 sites
- Paraplicatifera regularis4 sites
- Glomospira3 sites
- Neochonetes armenicus3 sites
- Orthothetina iljinae3 sites
- Pseudovermiporella3 sites
- Tuberitina3 sites
- Vediproductus punctatiformis3 sites
- Waagenophyllum (Waagenophyllum) indicum3 sites
- Acosarina minuta2 sites
- Chonostegoides armenicus2 sites
- Chusenella2 sites
- Cribrogenerina2 sites
- Diplopora2 sites
- Fusichonetes wongiana2 sites
- Fusulinina2 sites
- Globivalvulina2 sites
- Gymnocodium2 sites
- Hemigordius2 sites
- Leptodus nobilis2 sites
- Leptodus richthofeni2 sites
- Mackinneyella praepluriformis2 sites
- Neochonetes (Huangichonetes) substrophomenoides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Martiniopsis inflata, 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
9 references- An upper Kungurian/lower Guadalupian (Permian) brachiopod fauna from the South Qiangtang Block in Tibet and its palaeobiogeographical implications4
- Upper Permian and Permian-Triassic boundary in north Iran4
- Yang et al., 19872
- The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary2
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 22
- Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda1
- Permian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from north-west Nepal1
- Permo-Triassic section in Central Iran1
- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range1
Each of the 18 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 Martiniopsis inflata
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Martiniopsis inflata 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. Waagen 1883