Rhenorensselaeria

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhenorensselaerinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 38 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Rhenorensselaeria 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
10 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
7 formations
- Lower Dark Formation2
- Dartmouth Beds Formation1
- Kurrenberg Formation1
- Upper Dark Formation1
- Saxler Formation1
- Reudelsterz Formation1
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The named rock units Rhenorensselaeria 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.
Rhenorensselaeria and its relatives
DevonianWhere Rhenorensselaeria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Hysterolites7 sites
- Chonetes6 sites
- Acrospirifer5 sites
- Oligoptycherhynchus3 sites
- Palaeoneilo3 sites
- Tropidoleptus3 sites
- Arduspirifer arduennensis2 sites
- Eodevonaria2 sites
- Euryspirifer assimilis2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Nuculites2 sites
- Platyorthis2 sites
- Stropheodontidae2 sites
- Subcuspidella2 sites
- Actinopteria1 site
- Arenicolites1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachyspirifer1 site
- Bucanella1 site
- Carydium1 site
- Cornelites costatus1 site
- Cornellites1 site
- Ctenochonetes1 site
- Dalejina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Rhenorensselaeria, 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
5 references- Upper Siegenian and Lower Emsian in the Eifel Hills6
- The Devonian of Celtiberia (Spain) and Devonian paleogeography of SW Europe1
- Significance of a Tropidoleptus assemblage from the Devonian of the Moravo-Silesian region, Czechoslovakia1
- A marine fauna from the Dartmouth Beds (Lower Devonian) of Cornwall1
- Vegetaux Eodevoniens de la Belgique1
Each of the 10 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 Rhenorensselaeria
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Rhenorensselaeria 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 itRhenorensselaerinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kegel 1913