Quadrithyrina

Yale Peabody Museum · 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
- BojothyridinaePBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
31 occurrences of Quadrithyrina 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
31 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
12 formations
- Ukalunda Beds Formation6
- Beijuntang Formation5
- Taemas Formation · Murrumbidgee Group3
- Vizhay Formation3
- Sangitovar Formation · Madmon Group2
- Khukar Formation · Madmon Group2
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The named rock units Quadrithyrina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Quadrithyrina and its relatives
DevonianWhere Quadrithyrina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
321 taxa- Carinatina15 sites
- Atrypa10 sites
- Gypidula7 sites
- Howellella7 sites
- Isorthis7 sites
- Protochonetes7 sites
- Aulacella6 sites
- Cymostrophia (Protocymostrophia)6 sites
- Cyrtina6 sites
- Rugosa6 sites
- Clorinda5 sites
- Coelospira5 sites
- Cymostrophia5 sites
- Macropleura5 sites
- Mesoleptostrophia (Paraleptostrophia)5 sites
- Reticulatrypa5 sites
- Schizophoria5 sites
- Spirigerina5 sites
- Spirigerina supramarginalis5 sites
- Trilobita5 sites
- Vagrania5 sites
- Atryparia4 sites
- Cingulodermis4 sites
- Desquamatia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Quadrithyrina, 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
10 references- Emsian (Early Devonian) brachiopods from the Ukalunda Beds and Douglas Creek, north Queensland6
- Early Devonian brachiopod and trace fossil communitires from southeastern Guangxi5
- Stratigrafiya [Stratigraphy]5
- Early Devonian brachiopods from the Zeravshan Mountain Range, southern Tyan-Shan, central Asia4
- Sedimentology, benthic communities, and brachiopods in the Suchomasty (Dalejan) and Acanthopyge (Eifelian) Limestones of the Koneprusy area (Czechoslovakia)3
- Brachiopods of the Murrumbidgee Group, Taemas, New South Wales3
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages2
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region1
- The Garra Formation (Early Devonian: Late Lochkovian) between Cumnock and Larras Lee, New South Wales, Australia: stratigraphic and structural setting, faunas, and community sequence1
- Novyye dannyye po stratigrafii siluriyskikh i devonskikh otlozheniy yugo-vostochnogo okonchaniya Pay-Khoya [New data on the stratigraphy of the Silurian and Devonian deposits of the southeastern end of the Pay-Khoy]1
Each of the 31 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 Quadrithyrina
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Quadrithyrina 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 itBojothyridinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Havlicek 1959