Rhynchotrema nutrix

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhynchotremaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 300 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
9 occurrences of Rhynchotrema nutrix 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Rhynchotrema nutrix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhynchotrema nutrix and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rhynchotrema nutrix and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Hebertella maria6 sites
- Eochonetes glabra4 sites
- Vinlandostrophia regularis4 sites
- Coolinia gamachiana3 sites
- Hindella umbonata3 sites
- Mendacella uberis3 sites
- Plaesiomys anticostiensis3 sites
- Barbarorthis laurentina2 sites
- Eospirigerina2 sites
- Hindella2 sites
- Leptaena quadrilatera2 sites
- Onniella tricapitata2 sites
- Sowerbyella (Eochonetes)2 sites
- Vellamo diversa2 sites
- Brachytomaria papillosa1 site
- Eostrophonella semiovalis1 site
- Eurogrewingkia pulchella1 site
- Fardenia (Coolinia)1 site
- Holopea pyrene1 site
- Mendacella megacircularis1 site
- Rostricellula transversa1 site
- Strophomena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Rhynchotrema nutrix, 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- Late Ordovician Orthide and Billingsellide Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada: Diversity Change Through Mass Extinction8
- Late Ordovician - Early Silurian rhynchonellid brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Quebec1
Each of the 9 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 Rhynchotrema nutrix
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- Credit
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- Licence
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Rhynchotrema nutrix 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 itRhynchotrema through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1866)