Niorhynx
No picture of Niorhynx was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Niorhynx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NiorhynicidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.5 Mya to 426.7 Mya.
10 occurrences of Niorhynx on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
10 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Niorhynx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Niorhynx and its relatives
SilurianWhere Niorhynx and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Cyrtia7 sites
- Cheirurus (Cheirurus) insignis5 sites
- Monograptus5 sites
- Bleshidium4 sites
- Brachiopoda4 sites
- Decoroproetus decorus4 sites
- Dicranopeltis scabra4 sites
- Septatrypa (Hircinisca)4 sites
- Staurocephalus murchisoni4 sites
- Strophochonetes4 sites
- Trochurus speciosus4 sites
- Atrypina3 sites
- Conularia3 sites
- Cyrtograptus3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Leonaspis3 sites
- Mendacella3 sites
- Mezounia3 sites
- Planiscutellum3 sites
- Pseudoprotathyris3 sites
- Septatrypa3 sites
- Amphistrophia2 sites
- Aratoechia2 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Niorhynx, 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- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)7
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia3
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Niorhynx was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Niorhynx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Niorhynx 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 itNiorhynicidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.