Reeftonella
No picture of Reeftonella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Reeftonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeganteridinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Reeftonella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
5 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Bolitho Mudstone Formation · Reefton Group1
- Adam Mudstone Formation1
- Ranft Mudstone Formation1
- Alexander Mudstone Formation1
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The named rock units Reeftonella 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.
Reeftonella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Reeftonella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Crinoidea5 sites
- Nautiloidea4 sites
- Acrospirifer3 sites
- Bryozoa3 sites
- Chonetes3 sites
- Cimitaria hendersoni3 sites
- Cornellites johnstoni3 sites
- Cornellites mackayi3 sites
- Glossites lingualis3 sites
- Notonucula talenti3 sites
- Paleodora reeftonensis3 sites
- Pterinopecten3 sites
- Rhynchonellida3 sites
- Bellerophontoidea2 sites
- Burmeisteria2 sites
- Cornellites flemingi2 sites
- Cyrtodonta2 sites
- Digonus2 sites
- Eoschizodus2 sites
- Leptostrophia2 sites
- Lyriopecten2 sites
- Mauispirifer2 sites
- Modiomorpha2 sites
- Modiomorpha kaka2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Reeftonella, 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
2 references- Stratigraphy and structure of the Devonian rocks of Inangahua Outlier, Reefton, New Zealand4
- Early Devonian (Emsian) fossils from the Lake Haupiri area, North Westland1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Reeftonella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Reeftonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Reeftonella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMeganteridinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.