Rhabdinopora flabelliformis

Rhabdinopora flabelliformis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhabdinoporaPBDB
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 8.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 483.8 Mya to 475.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 491.5 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 48 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 48 of 48 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 48 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 6 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 10 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 6 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 5 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 5 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 5 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 1 occurrence474–472 Mya — about 1 occurrence472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483.8 Mya475.3 Mya492 Mya442 Mya

48 occurrences of Rhabdinopora flabelliformis 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

48 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

16 formations

Kallavere — 59.44°N, 27.21°EKallavere — 59.41°N, 28.02°EGarden City — 41.92°N, 112.15°WGarden City — 41.83°N, 111.60°WMadaoyu — 29.19°N, 111.27°EVolcancito — 29.00°S, 68.00°WVolcancito — 28.87°S, 67.75°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°EStauro Gully Shale — 37.30°S, 144.73°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°WGreen Point — 49.83°N, 57.87°WDictyonema Shale — 60.98°N, 15.20°ETosnensky — 59.66°N, 30.68°EKoporskaya — 58.24°N, 29.08°E

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The named rock units Rhabdinopora flabelliformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhabdinopora flabelliformis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rhabdinopora flabelliformis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Rhabdinopora flabelliformis, 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

17 references

Each of the 48 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. 5 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 flabelliformis

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

No 3D scan of Rhabdinopora flabelliformis 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eichwald 1840)