Receptaculites elongatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ReceptaculitesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Receptaculitidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Receptaculitidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Receptaculitidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Receptaculitidae

Time the record covers

At most 4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 475.3 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475.8 Mya470.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Receptaculites elongatus 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

3 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

2 formations

Fillmore Limestone — 39.89°N, 113.37°WFillmore Limestone — 38.84°N, 113.46°WGarden City — 40.89°N, 112.82°W

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

Receptaculites elongatus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Receptaculites elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Receptaculites elongatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 3 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 Receptaculites elongatus 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 Receptaculites elongatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Receptaculites elongatus 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 itReceptaculites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1884