Ramphoprion

Ramphoprion

Olle Hints · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
RamphoprionidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Polychaeta
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polychaeta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Polychaeta
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta

Time the record covers

At least 300 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449.9 Mya – 449.6 Mya453.3 Mya444.7 Mya

6 occurrences of Ramphoprion on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

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

4 formations

Waynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WVaureal — 49.83°N, 64.40°WSaunja — 58.84°N, 24.98°EHulderstad — 58.84°N, 24.98°E

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The named rock units Ramphoprion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ramphoprion and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ramphoprion and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ramphoprion, 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

3 references

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ramphoprion

Credit
Olle Hints
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ramphoprion was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itRamphoprionidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kielan-Jaworowska 1962