Rectonariidae

No picture of Rectonariidae 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 Rectonariidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BairdiocypridoideaPBDB
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 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 36 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 2 of 36 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 31 of 36 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 36 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 36 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences353–348 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 13 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 13 occurrences275–270 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–248 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–231 Mya — about 2 occurrences346.7 Mya237 Mya361 Mya231 Mya

36 occurrences of Rectonariidae 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

36 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

3 formations

Lercara — 37.63°N, 13.28°EHuglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°EDalong — 22.27°N, 107.69°E

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The named rock units Rectonariidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rectonariidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Rectonariidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Rectonariidae, 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

5 references

Each of the 36 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

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No picture of Rectonariidae 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 Rectonariidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itBairdiocypridoidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gruendel 1962