Rhynia

No picture of Rhynia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhynia itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access 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 Rhynia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PsilophytalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At most 2.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413.52 Mya410.12 Mya

2 occurrences of Rhynia 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

2 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

1 formation

Dryden Flags — 57.34°N, 2.85°W

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

Rhynia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rhynia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rhynia, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Rhynia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhynia itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 Rhynia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhynia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPsilophytales through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kidston and Lang 1917