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Athyris

Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Taxonomy

Athyris was named as a genus. It is not extant. Its type is Athyris headi. It is the type genus of Athyridinae.

It was reranked as Spirigera (Athyris) by Hall (1857).

It was assigned to Spirigera by Hall (1857); to Spiriferida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Athyridinae by Williams et al. (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data

A. area, A. bayeti, A. chitralensis, A. cingulata, A. expansa, A. fultonensis, A. gerolsteinensis, A. hunanensis, A. juno, A. minuta, A. mollizonota, A. odolens, A. oehlerti, A. reticulata, A. sulcifera, A. undata, A. vittata, A. vittata, A. waratahensis, A. wiragullensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1857	Spirigera (Athyris) Hall p. 8
2002	Athyris Sepkoski
2002	Athyris Williams et al. p. 1497

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
—	Lophophorata
—	Panbrachiopoda	Carlson and Cohen 2020
phylum	Brachiopoda	Cuvier 1805

Rank	Name	Author
subphylum	Rhynchonelliformea	Williams et al. 1996
class	Rhynchonellata	Williams et al. 1996
order	Athyridida	Boucot et al. 1964
suborder	Athyrididina	Boucot et al. 1964
superfamily	Athyridoidea	McCoy 1844
family	Athyrididae	McCoy 1841
subfamily	Athyridinae	M'Coy 1844
genus	Athyris

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Athyris

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Subg. †Athyris (Cliothyris) King 1850

Subg. †Athyris (Seminula) M'Coy 1844

Subg. †Athyris (Spirigera)

Subg. †Spirigera (Didymospira) Salomon 1895

†Spirigera (Didymospira) stoppanii Salomon 1895

†Spirigera (Didymospira) undata Salomon 1895

†Spirigera borovacensis Kittl 1903

†Spirigera forojulensis Bittner 1890

†Spirigera kaihikuana Trechmann 1917

†Spirigera kittlii Bittner 1902

†Spirigera manzavinii Bittner 1891

†Spirigera manzavinioides Trechmann 1917

†Spirigera milesi Smith 1927

†Spirigera misolica Krumbeck 1913

†Spirigera monticola White 1874

†Spirigera oppelii Laube 1865

†Spirigera pseudodielasma Fliegel 1901

†Spirigera schloenbachii Laube 1865

†Spirigera sellaris Klipstein 1843

†Spirigera siljanensis Kittl 1903

†Spirigera stoliczkai Bittner 1899

†Spirigera subindistincta Krumbeck 1924

†Spirigera sufflata Verneuil 1855

†Spirigera tricupii Bittner 1892

†Spirigera wreyi Zittel 1864

†Athyris ambiguaeformis Waagen 1883

†Athyris angelica Hall 1861

†Athyris angulata Mansuy 1912

†Athyris bisulcata Jin and Hu 1982

†Athyris bradyensis Carter 1967

†Athyris cestriensis Snider 1915

†Athyris concentrica von Buch 1834

†Athyris damesi Fliegel 1901

†Athyris globularis Phillips 1835

†Athyris goniocolpos Frech 1912

†Athyris lamellosa Léveillé 1835

†Athyris mirabilis Zeng et al. 1995

†Athyris persinuata Meek 1877

†Athyris plicatiformis Jin and Hu 1982

†Athyris spiriferoides Eaton 1831

†Athyris subquadrata Yang and Xu 1966

†Athyris xetra Diener 1915

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	17	10.7	3.50	25.7	14.2	6.81

Composition:

low Mg calcitep

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100g

Adult width:

10 to < 100g

Adult height:

10 to < 100g

Folds:

minorg

Ribbing:

minorg

Spines:

noneg

Internal reinforcement:

noneg

Environment:

marineuc

Locomotion:

stationarysubo

Attached:

yesp

Life habit:

low-level epifaunalsubo

Diet:

suspension feedersubo

Vision:

blindc

Comments:

BODY SIZE: Data from Williams et al (2002).g

Created:

2009-06-03 07:56:13

Modified:

2009-06-03 09:56:13

Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013, Hendy 2009

Age range: base of the Ludlow to the top of the Sevatian or 427.40000 to 205.60000 Ma

Collections (928 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Oldest occurrences
Silurian	443.8 - 419.2	USA (Alaska)	A. sp. (111812 111844)
Silurian	443.8 - 419.2	USA (California)	A. sp. (229257)
Silurian	443.8 - 419.2	USA (Kentucky)	A. fultonensis (5676)
Ludlow - Pridoli	427.4 - 419.2	Morocco	A. juno (27196)
Lochkovian	419.2 - 410.8	Morocco	A. sp. (27467)
Lochkovian	419.2 - 410.8	France	A. sp. (25973)
Lochkovian	419.2 - 410.8	Canada (Quebec)	A. sp. (654)
Lochkovian	419.2 - 410.8	Spain (Palencia)	A. undata (40347)
Pragian	410.8 - 407.6	Vietnam	A. kutsingensis, A. tiaomachiensis, A. spiriferoides, A. concentricus (83248) A. tiaomachiensis (83241)
Pragian	410.8 - 407.6	Australia (New South Wales)	A. waratahensis (25696)
Youngest occurrences
Time interval	Ma	Country or state	PBDB collection number
Tuvalian	232.0 - 221.5	New Caledonia	A. wreyi, A. manzavinioides (39934 39935)
Tuvalian	232.0 - 221.5	USA (California)	Spirigera milesi (144383)
Tuvalian	232.0 - 221.5	Hungary	A. gonicolpos, A. schloenbachi, A. subcurvata (23869)
Norian	228.0 - 208.5	East Timor	Spirigera subindistincta (21182)
Norian	228.0 - 208.5	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Spirigera eurycolpa (203844) Spirigera leptorhyncha (206615)
Norian	228.0 - 208.5	USA (Nevada)	Spirigera sp. (100391)
Norian	228.0 - 208.5	Indonesia (Timor)	Spirigera sp. (205450)
Oretian	227.5 - 221.0	New Zealand	A. sp. (137846)
Alaunian - Sevatian	215.56 - 205.6	Indonesia	Spirigera misolica (204491)
Rhaetian	208.5 - 201.3	Slovakia	Spirigera deslongchampsi (85059)