Reeftonia
No picture of Reeftonia 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 Reeftonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CortezorthinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 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 Reeftonia 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
2 formations
- Tabberabbera Formation · Wentworth Group1
- Bolitho Mudstone Formation · Reefton Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Reeftonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Reeftonia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Reeftonia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Bryozoa4 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Acrospirifer3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Leptostrophia3 sites
- Aesopomum2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Chonostrophiella2 sites
- Coelospirella2 sites
- Discomyorthis2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Leptaenopyxis bouei2 sites
- Megastrophia (Protomegastrophia)2 sites
- Nautiloidea2 sites
- Neoprobolium2 sites
- Nucleospira2 sites
- Paciphacops altaicus2 sites
- Parachonetes2 sites
- Paraspirifer2 sites
- Proschizophoria2 sites
- Reeftonella2 sites
- Rhynchonellida2 sites
- Schizophoria2 sites
- Schuchertella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Reeftonia, 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- Early Devonian brachiopods from the Lesser Khingan district of northeast China2
- Stratigraphy and structure of the Devonian rocks of Inangahua Outlier, Reefton, New Zealand1
- Early Devonian (Emsian) fossils from the Lake Haupiri area, North Westland1
- Silurian-Middle Devonian1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Reeftonia 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 Reeftonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Reeftonia 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 itCortezorthinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.