Rhabdocolpus

Rhabdocolpus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProcerithiidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 9 of 78 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 78 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 57 of 78 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 5 of 78 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 78 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous230–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–222 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences222–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences214–210 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences210–206 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences206–202 Mya — about 7 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 2 occurrences194–190 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences190–186 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences182–178 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences178–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 4 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 25 occurrences166–162 Mya — about 23 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 7 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201.4 Mya119.57 Mya230 Mya111 Mya

78 occurrences of Rhabdocolpus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

78 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

15 formations

Carmel — 37.70°N, 113.05°WCarmel — 37.59°N, 113.06°WCarmel — 37.25°N, 113.52°WCarmel — 37.27°N, 113.78°WCarmel — 38.87°N, 110.91°WCarmel — 38.74°N, 110.52°WCarmel — 38.33°N, 111.52°WCarmel — 38.10°N, 111.93°WCarmel — 37.27°N, 112.52°WTwin Creek Limestone — 39.97°N, 111.52°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.20°N, 110.61°WMulanguiñeu — 44.40°S, 70.57°WMulanguiñeu — 44.33°S, 70.34°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WOsmington Oolite — 50.60°N, 2.45°WPassage Beds — 53.97°N, 1.08°WCoral Rag de Trouville — 49.37°N, 0.08°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ESawtooth — 47.72°N, 112.72°WTataouine — 32.73°N, 10.48°EMecsek Coal — 46.16°N, 18.32°ESandgate — 51.00°N, 0.83°WArapien Shale — 38.21°N, 112.92°WStonesfield Slate — 51.80°N, 1.88°WUpper Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Rhabdocolpus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhabdocolpus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Rhabdocolpus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

621 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Rhabdocolpus, 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

19 references

Each of the 78 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. 7 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 Rhabdocolpus

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

No 3D scan of Rhabdocolpus 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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What may have been alongside itProcerithiidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1906)