Obrimia
No picture of Obrimia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Obrimia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PholadomyidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Obrimia 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
6 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
2 formations
- Horlick Formation5
- Murray Creek Formation · Reefton Group1
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The named rock units Obrimia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Obrimia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Obrimia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Bryozoa3 sites
- Digonus3 sites
- Modiomorpha herculi3 sites
- Plectonotus derbyi3 sites
- Pleurothyrella3 sites
- Ancyrocrinus2 sites
- Chordata2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Lingula2 sites
- Nuculites2 sites
- Orbiculoidea2 sites
- Phestia2 sites
- Tentaculites2 sites
- Allanetes1 site
- Australospirifer1 site
- Burmeisteria1 site
- Cryptonella1 site
- Euomphalidae1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glossites1 site
- Glyptodesma allani1 site
- Gosseletia1 site
- Hyolitha1 site
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria) pojetai1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Obrimia, 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- Palaeoecology and systematics of Early Devonian bivalves from the Horlick Formation, Ohio Range, Antarctica5
- Lower Devonian bivalves from the Reefton Group, New Zealand1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Obrimia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Obrimia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Obrimia 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 itPholadomyida through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.