Rhabdostropha

Rhabdostropha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OmospirinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.2 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 32 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 12 of 32 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 15 of 32 occurrencesDevonian451–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 4 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 3 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–425 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 6 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 6 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 3 occurrences449.2 Mya387.95 Mya451 Mya381 Mya

32 occurrences of Rhabdostropha on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

32 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

13 formations

Skaneateles — 42.97°N, 76.44°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 75.99°WSkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.25°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.15°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.95°N, 76.43°WSkaneateles — 42.79°N, 75.27°WPentamerus Sandstone — 52.00°N, 3.00°WPentamerus Sandstone — 52.02°N, 4.85°WPentamerus Sandstone — 52.72°N, 2.75°WPentamerus Sandstone — 52.64°N, 2.92°WPort Clarence Limestone — 65.50°N, 165.92°WJupiter — 49.22°N, 62.40°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EDamery Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WSolvik — 59.83°N, 10.43°EVik — 59.90°N, 10.52°EXiushan — 27.52°N, 108.33°EMill — 55.25°N, 4.85°WSouth Threave — 55.29°N, 4.76°WShalloch — 55.25°N, 4.85°WAymestry Limestone — 52.03°N, 2.42°W

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The named rock units Rhabdostropha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Rhabdostropha and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rhabdostropha and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

390 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Rhabdostropha, 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

9 references

Each of the 32 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. 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 Rhabdostropha

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Rhabdostropha 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 itOmospirinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Donald 1905)