Rhombopteria

Rhombopteria

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
RhombopteriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 12 occurrencesSilurian — about 10 of 12 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 12 occurrencesDevonian444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–429 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence413–412 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430.6 Mya413.02 Mya443.8 Mya410 Mya

12 occurrences of Rhombopteria 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

12 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

6 formations

Racine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WToongabble Limestone — 38.08°S, 146.58°ECape Phillips — 75.13°N, 95.00°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EWayne — 36.08°N, 87.00°W

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The named rock units Rhombopteria 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.

Rhombopteria and its relatives

Silurian

Where Rhombopteria and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

518 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Rhombopteria, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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 Rhombopteria

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhombopteria 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 itRhombopteriidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jackson 1890