Rectella

Rectella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BairdiocyprididaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 450.5 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 9 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 9 occurrencesDevonian452–450 Mya — about 6 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449.9 Mya399.5 Mya452 Mya392 Mya

9 occurrences of Rectella 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

9 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

Meilun — 57.64°N, 27.91°ETudulinna — 57.64°N, 27.91°ESubica — 48.58°N, 26.82°EShanda Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°E

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The named rock units Rectella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rectella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rectella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

184 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rectella, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 Rectella

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBairdiocyprididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gramm 1970