Rhabdinopora

Rhabdinopora is a genus of graptolites belonging to the family Anisograptidae. It is the earliest planktic graptolite and is presumably the ancestor of all later planktic graptoloids. Some species identified as the first planktid graptolite are:Rhabdinopora proparabola Rhabdinopora praeparabola Rhabdinopora parabola Rhabdinopora flabelliformis

Rhabdinopora

Siim Sepp · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnisograptidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Graptoloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 475.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 67 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 66 of 67 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 67 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–494 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 14 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 13 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 8 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 8 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 8 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 3 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486.85 Mya475.3 Mya498 Mya442 Mya

67 occurrences of Rhabdinopora 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

67 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

20 formations

Kallavere — 59.44°N, 27.21°EKallavere — 59.41°N, 28.02°EMadaoyu — 29.19°N, 111.27°EVolcancito — 29.00°S, 68.00°WVolcancito — 28.87°S, 67.75°WGarden City — 41.92°N, 112.15°WGarden City — 41.83°N, 111.60°WStauro Gully Shale — 37.30°S, 144.73°EKoporskaya — 58.24°N, 29.08°EGreen Point — 49.83°N, 57.87°WGreen Point — 50.05°N, 57.70°WGreen Point — 49.85°N, 57.81°WBreadstone Shales — 51.70°N, 2.43°WCwmhesgen — 52.86°N, 3.81°WTrenice — 50.00°N, 14.00°ETrenice — 49.78°N, 13.68°EDictyonema Shale — 60.98°N, 15.20°EDictyonema Shale — 58.38°N, 14.70°EShineton Shales — 52.63°N, 2.58°WTaraya — 22.03°S, 65.35°WGuanacuna — 17.62°S, 62.22°WGuanacuno — 22.08°S, 65.00°WLampazar — 23.00°S, 66.00°WLower Fezouata — 30.68°N, 6.18°WCooks Brook — 49.16°N, 58.15°WTosnensky — 59.66°N, 30.68°EEl Santísimo — 28.92°N, 109.29°W

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The named rock units Rhabdinopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhabdinopora and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rhabdinopora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Rhabdinopora, 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

24 references

Each of the 67 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. 12 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 Rhabdinopora

Credit
Siim Sepp
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhabdinopora 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Eichwald 1860