Reuschella

Reuschella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HarknessellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.7 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 71 of 81 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 10 of 81 occurrencesSilurian460–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 20 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 10 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 5 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–452 Mya — about 8 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 4 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 4 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 3 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 3 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457.3 Mya443.1 Mya460.2 Mya432.4 Mya

81 occurrences of Reuschella 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

81 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

33 formations

Solvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 59.85°N, 10.47°ECwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WAllt Ddu — 52.90°N, 3.58°WWhittery Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WÄrina — 59.18°N, 26.20°EGelli-Grin — 53.00°N, 4.00°WHagley Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WOranda — 39.00°N, 78.00°WOranda — 38.53°N, 78.86°WSwch Gorge Tuff — 53.00°N, 3.00°WNod Glas — 53.00°N, 4.00°WDolhir — 52.93°N, 3.18°WFombuena — 41.13°N, 1.21°WFombuena — 41.23°N, 1.06°WŠakiai — 54.56°N, 22.83°EPen-y-planeau Siltstone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WPen-y-garnedd — 53.00°N, 3.00°WAllt-Ddu Mudstones — 53.00°N, 4.00°WCheney Longville — 52.00°N, 3.00°WZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EWenchang — 29.00°N, 119.00°EWenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WTrapiche — 30.00°S, 69.00°WCantera Shale — 38.90°N, 4.06°WNant Hir — 52.90°N, 3.58°WGlyn Gower Siltstone — 52.90°N, 3.58°W

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The named rock units Reuschella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Reuschella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Reuschella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

720 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Reuschella, 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

29 references

Each of the 81 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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 Reuschella

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Reuschella was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bancroft 1928