Rhyncholampas gouldii

Rhyncholampas gouldii

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhyncholampasPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Cassiduloida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cassiduloida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Cassiduloida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesOligocene — about 21 of 21 occurrencesOligocene34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34.4 Mya26.8 Mya

21 occurrences of Rhyncholampas gouldii on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

21 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

Suwannee Limestone — 29.33°N, 83.14°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.20°N, 82.18°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.56°N, 82.39°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.11°N, 82.70°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.33°N, 82.76°WSuwannee Limestone — 29.92°N, 82.71°WSuwannee Limestone — 29.87°N, 82.75°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.38°N, 83.17°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.36°N, 83.13°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.30°N, 83.10°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.28°N, 83.71°WSuwannee Limestone — 29.81°N, 82.94°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.12°N, 83.60°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.38°N, 83.80°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.37°N, 83.94°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.17°N, 83.96°WBridgeboro Limestone — 31.40°N, 83.98°W

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

Rhyncholampas gouldii and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Rhyncholampas gouldii and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

92 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Rhyncholampas gouldii, 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

3 references

Each of the 21 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 content2

Picture of Rhyncholampas gouldii

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itRhyncholampas through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bouvé 1846