Rhynchonelloidella smithi

Rhynchonelloidella smithi is a species of extinct, small-sized brachiopods, a marine rhynchonellate lampshell in the family Rhynchonellidae. It is roughly 9/16 inch (1.4 cm), and has about 21 ribs fanning out from the hinge.

Rhynchonelloidella smithi

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
RhynchonelloidellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 11 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.7 Mya164.8 Mya

11 occurrences of Rhynchonelloidella smithi on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

11 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

Fuller's Earth — 51.38°N, 2.36°WFuller's Earth — 50.62°N, 2.46°WFuller's Earth — 51.11°N, 2.45°WFuller's Earth — 51.42°N, 2.23°WFuller's Earth — 51.86°N, 2.23°WForest Marble — 51.34°N, 2.25°W

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The named rock units Rhynchonelloidella smithi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhynchonelloidella smithi and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Rhynchonelloidella smithi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Rhynchonelloidella smithi, 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 11 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 Rhynchonelloidella smithi

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhynchonelloidella smithi 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itRhynchonelloidella through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1878)