Rhyniognatha hirsti

Joanna M. Wolfe, Allison C. Daley, David A. Legg, Gregory D. Edgecombe · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- RhyniognathaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 410.62 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Rhyniognatha hirsti 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Rhyniognatha hirsti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhyniognatha hirsti and its relatives
DevonianWhere Rhyniognatha hirsti and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Palaeocharinus1 site
- Palaeocharinus calmani1 site
- Palaeocharinus hornei1 site
- Palaeocharinus rhyniensis1 site
- Palaeocharinus scourfieldi1 site
- Protacarus crani1 site
- Rhyniella praecursor1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rhyniognatha hirsti, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Rhyniognatha hirsti
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Joanna M. Wolfe, Allison C. Daley, David A. Legg, Gregory D. Edgecombe
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Rhyniognatha hirsti 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 itRhyniognatha through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1928