Rectifenestella tenax

No picture of Rectifenestella tenax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rectifenestella tenax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RectifenestellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 64 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 14 of 64 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 50 of 64 occurrencesPermian360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences350–347 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 2 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 3 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 18 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 31 occurrences290–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335.4 Mya290.1 Mya360 Mya282 Mya

64 occurrences of Rectifenestella tenax on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

64 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

9 formations

Wreford — 39.06°N, 96.51°WWreford — 39.47°N, 96.41°WWreford — 39.33°N, 96.53°WWreford — 38.87°N, 96.23°WWreford — 38.70°N, 96.50°WWreford — 38.22°N, 96.43°WWreford — 38.41°N, 96.56°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.75°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.57°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.43°WWreford — 37.81°N, 96.54°WWreford — 38.04°N, 96.42°WWreford — 38.09°N, 96.39°WWreford — 38.97°N, 96.86°WWreford — 38.14°N, 96.59°WWreford — 37.00°N, 96.00°WWreford — 38.36°N, 96.75°WWreford — 38.13°N, 96.54°WWreford — 37.31°N, 96.70°WWreford — 39.84°N, 96.47°WWreford — 38.15°N, 96.56°WWreford — 38.18°N, 96.47°WWreford — 38.27°N, 96.38°WWreford — 38.66°N, 96.25°WWreford — 38.60°N, 96.51°WParadise — 31.93°N, 109.22°WParadise — 31.93°N, 100.22°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.17°N, 86.57°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.12°N, 86.57°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.37°N, 86.62°WSalem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WGreat Blue — 40.30°N, 112.22°WBird Spring — 36.55°N, 115.69°WGreat Blue limestone — 40.53°N, 112.30°WZygar — 33.63°N, 68.02°E

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The named rock units Rectifenestella tenax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rectifenestella tenax and its relatives

Permian

Where Rectifenestella tenax and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

342 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Rectifenestella tenax, 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

9 references

Each of the 64 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

Media content0

No picture of Rectifenestella tenax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rectifenestella tenax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rectifenestella tenax was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itRectifenestella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich 1888)