Rhabdoporella

Rhabdoporella

August Rothpletz (1853-1918) · Public Domain · 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
DasycladalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 7 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 7 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 7 occurrencesDevonian454–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443.1 Mya410.62 Mya454 Mya392 Mya

7 occurrences of Rhabdoporella on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

7 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

5 formations

Goloskov Subsuite — 48.53°N, 26.67°EBlue Fjord — 77.25°N, 86.83°WWest Point — 48.17°N, 65.00°WLoka — 61.07°N, 15.17°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°E

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The named rock units Rhabdoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhabdoporella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Rhabdoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

141 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rhabdoporella, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Rhabdoporella

Credit
August Rothpletz (1853-1918)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhabdoporella 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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What may have been alongside itDasycladales through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stolley 1893