Rhipidomellidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DalmanelloideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 195 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
2,013 occurrences of Rhipidomellidae 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
2,013 occurrences- Ordovician3%
- Silurian31%
- Devonian34%
- Carboniferous19%
- Permian13%
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
471 formations
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group80
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group61
- Henryhouse Formation52
- Skinner Ranch Formation43
- Skaneateles Formation · Hamilton Group36
- Onondaga Formation32
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The named rock units Rhipidomellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 447 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 273 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rhipidomellidae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Rhipidomellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
1,282 taxa- Mendacella mullockiensis102 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata81 sites
- Leangella scissa74 sites
- Rhipidomella67 sites
- Skenidioides woodlandiensis55 sites
- Crinoidea54 sites
- Kozlowskites gracilis39 sites
- Bryozoa35 sites
- Schuchertella35 sites
- Stegerhynchus pusillum35 sites
- Fenestella34 sites
- Spirifer34 sites
- Camarotoechia31 sites
- Leptaena31 sites
- Punctospirifer30 sites
- Meifodia prima29 sites
- Dolerorthis sowerbyiana27 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) haverfordensis26 sites
- Atrypa24 sites
- Hindella crassa24 sites
- Rhombopora24 sites
- Tentaculites23 sites
- Brachiopoda22 sites
- Rugosa22 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,756 sites for Rhipidomellidae, and this reads 240 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
411 references- Early Llandovery brachiopods of Wales111
- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI111
- Silurian brachiopods Dictyonellida, Strophomenida, Productida, Orthotetida, Protorthida and Orthida from Estonia56
- Brachiopods of the Henryhouse Formation (Silurian) of Oklahoma46
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis41
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America34
- Oekologie und Fazies des juengsten Ober-Devon von Velbert (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)30
- Early Carboniferous brachiopod zones of eastern Australia30
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas30
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York30
- Late Ordovician Orthide and Billingsellide Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada: Diversity Change Through Mass Extinction27
- Testing for faunal stability across a regional biotic transition: quantifying stasis and variation among recurring coral-rich biofacies in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin26
Each of the 2,013 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. 399 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 Rhipidomellidae
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No 3D scan of Rhipidomellidae 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 itDalmanelloidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert 1913