Rhopaliophora palmata

No picture of Rhopaliophora palmata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rhopaliophora palmata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhopaliophoraPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 475.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician487–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487.4 Mya475.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Rhopaliophora palmata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

5 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

2 formations

Leetse — 59.87°N, 31.43°EParcha — 24.68°S, 64.74°W

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

Rhopaliophora palmata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rhopaliophora palmata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rhopaliophora palmata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 5 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

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No picture of Rhopaliophora palmata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rhopaliophora palmata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Rhopaliophora palmata 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRhopaliophora through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Combaz and Peniguel 1972