Mimatrypa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KarpinskiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
23 occurrences of Mimatrypa on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
23 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
10 formations
- Loogh Formation4
- Massenkalk Formation3
- Stuart Bay Formation2
- Middle Loogh Formation2
- McMonnigal Limestone Formation2
- Road River and /or Delorme Formation1
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The named rock units Mimatrypa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mimatrypa and its relatives
DevonianWhere Mimatrypa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
143 taxa- Toquimaella kayi6 sites
- Machaeraria5 sites
- Atrypa4 sites
- Cyrtina4 sites
- Dolerorthis4 sites
- Leptaena4 sites
- Ambocoelia3 sites
- Anastrophia (Grayina) magnifica3 sites
- Ancillotoechia3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Brachyprion mirabilis3 sites
- Carinagypa3 sites
- Chonetes3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Dalejina3 sites
- Gypidula3 sites
- Gypidula pseudogaleata3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Katuniella3 sites
- Mesodouvillina3 sites
- Nucleospira3 sites
- Protocortezorthis3 sites
- Schuchertella3 sites
- Spirigerina supramarginalis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Mimatrypa, 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
11 references- Schischcatella (Fenestrata, Bryozoa) from the Devonian of the Rhenish Massif, Germany6
- Die Fossilführung des Mitteldevons im Raum Attendorn-Olpe (West-Sauerland; Rechtsrheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Middle Devonian fossils of the Attendorn-Olpe area (western Sauerland; Rhenish Massif]3
- Lower and Middle Devonian Brachiopod-Dominated Communities of Nevada, and Their Position in a Biofacies-Province-Realm Model3
- Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda3
- Devonian brachiopods from the Quadrithyris Zone (Upper Lochkovian), Canadian arctic archipelago2
- Rhynchonelliform brachiopods and trilobites of the ‘upper dark interval’ in the Koněprusy area (Devonian, Eifelian, Kačák Event; the Czech Republic)1
- Wenlockian to Pragian brachiopod communities of the northern Canadian Cordillera1
- Der Massenkalk (Devon) nördlich von Brilon (Sauerland) [The Devonian Massenkalk north of Brilon (Sauerland)]1
- Stratigrafiya [Stratigraphy]1
- Lower Devonian brachiopod communities of the northern Canadian Cordillera1
- Quadrithyris Zone (Lower Devonian) near-reef brachiopods from Bathurst Island, arctic Canada; with a description of a new rhynchonellid brachiopod Franklinella1
Each of the 23 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 Mimatrypa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mimatrypa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itKarpinskiinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.