Rhaetina

Rhaetina is an extinct genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Angustothyrididae.

Rhaetina

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
AngustothyrididaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunal, gregariousPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 2 of 281 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 281 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 274 of 281 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 281 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 4 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 7 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 7 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 6 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 6 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 6 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 6 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 5 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 5 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 5 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 5 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 5 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 6 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 5 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 5 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 5 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 3 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 3 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 9 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 70 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 70 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 30 occurrences247 Mya205.7 Mya252 Mya200 Mya

281 occurrences of Rhaetina on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

281 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

44 formations

Kossen — 47.78°N, 13.80°EKossen — 47.66°N, 12.45°EKossen — 47.57°N, 11.77°EKossen — 47.75°N, 14.73°EKossen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKossen — 47.61°N, 12.57°EKossen — 47.68°N, 13.35°EKossen — 47.78°N, 14.48°EKossen — 47.78°N, 15.17°EKossen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EKossen — 47.55°N, 12.17°EKoessen — 47.00°N, 13.00°EKoessen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.61°N, 12.57°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EKoessen — 47.89°N, 15.98°EKoessen — 47.57°N, 11.77°EKoessen — 47.85°N, 16.02°EKoessen — 48.13°N, 16.24°EKoessen — 48.02°N, 16.17°EOberrhaet — 47.61°N, 12.57°ESandorhegy Limestone — 47.00°N, 17.90°ESandorhegy Limestone — 47.33°N, 17.64°EBolila — 31.61°N, 97.97°EBolila — 31.30°N, 98.01°EBolila — 30.90°N, 98.30°ELuning — 38.87°N, 117.62°WLuning — 38.40°N, 118.00°WCalcare di Zu — 45.87°N, 9.67°ECalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°ECalcare di Zu — 45.67°N, 10.02°EHanwang — 31.45°N, 104.15°EDachstein — 47.61°N, 15.16°EDachstein — 47.73°N, 13.64°EKuahongdong — 32.20°N, 105.23°EKuahongdong — 31.50°N, 104.24°EKuahongdong — 32.08°N, 105.07°EPac Ma — 21.50°N, 104.00°EHybe — 49.02°N, 19.83°EFatra — 49.10°N, 19.22°EZhuganpo — 25.90°N, 105.42°EZhuganpo — 25.65°N, 105.34°ENayband — 31.15°N, 52.65°EKössen beds — 49.03°N, 19.84°EThaynes — 43.15°N, 112.07°WThaynes — 42.85°N, 111.26°WYazhi — 28.45°N, 86.13°EYatyrgvarta — 43.85°N, 40.62°ESanqiao — 26.58°N, 106.67°ETianjingshan — 32.42°N, 105.67°EHosselkus — 40.84°N, 122.10°WModin — 41.25°N, 122.33°WRadomir — 42.60°N, 23.03°E

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The named rock units Rhaetina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 99 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhaetina and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Rhaetina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,099 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 190 sites for Rhaetina, 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

56 references

Each of the 281 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. 44 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 Rhaetina

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhaetina 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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What may have been alongside itAngustothyrididae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1882