Rhynchospirina

Rhynchospirina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhynchospirinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Retziidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Retziidina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Retziidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 80 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 28 of 80 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 51 of 80 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 80 occurrences472–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–437 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences437–433 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 5 occurrences426–422 Mya — about 13 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 18 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 16 occurrences414–410 Mya — about 7 occurrences410–406 Mya — about 2 occurrences406–403 Mya — about 2 occurrences403–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–395 Mya — about 3 occurrences395–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences368–364 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences364–360 Mya — about 2 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences458.2 Mya365.2 Mya472 Mya357 Mya

80 occurrences of Rhynchospirina on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

80 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

37 formations

Roberts Mountain — 39.94°N, 116.32°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WTonoloway Limstone — 39.44°N, 78.97°WHaragan — 34.48°N, 96.50°WRoberts Mountains — 39.94°N, 116.31°WRoberts Mountains — 39.90°N, 116.36°WDyer — 39.80°N, 107.17°WDyer — 39.62°N, 107.10°WTonoloway Limestone — 39.57°N, 76.84°WKeyser Limestone — 39.64°N, 77.66°WOnondaga — 42.18°N, 73.95°WOnondaga — 42.00°N, 74.00°WEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°ESiyak — 53.10°N, 57.43°EStonehouse — 45.62°N, 61.97°WStonehouse — 45.70°N, 62.10°WCoeymans — 41.29°N, 74.14°WCoeymans — 42.80°N, 74.75°WTonoloway — 39.57°N, 78.83°WKellerwand — 46.50°N, 13.00°ELambertenghi — 46.50°N, 13.00°EGaspe — 48.87°N, 64.21°WRoss Brook — 45.62°N, 61.97°WZlichov Limestone — 49.50°N, 14.33°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHamra Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EIsakov Beds — 49.58°N, 23.90°EBostów — 50.47°N, 21.08°ETajna Beds — 49.02°N, 25.80°E

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The named rock units Rhynchospirina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhynchospirina and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rhynchospirina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

994 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Rhynchospirina, 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

40 references

Each of the 80 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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 Rhynchospirina

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhynchospirina 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 itRhynchospirinidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert and LeVene 1929