Rhyncholepis

No picture of Rhyncholepis was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhyncholepis itself, so it was not used. Wikidata did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rhyncholepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BirkeniidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At most 3.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 430.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 8 of 8 occurrencesSilurian431–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences431.1 Mya426.2 Mya

8 occurrences of Rhyncholepis 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

8 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

3 formations

Halla — 57.61°N, 18.80°ESundvollen — 60.17°N, 10.30°EKlinteberg — 57.61°N, 18.80°E

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The named rock units Rhyncholepis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhyncholepis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Rhyncholepis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Rhyncholepis, 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 8 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 content0

No picture of Rhyncholepis was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhyncholepis itself, so it was not used.

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

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rhyncholepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itBirkeniidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kiaer 1911