Richterina

No picture of Richterina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Richterina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EntomozoidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Myodocopida
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Myodocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Myodocopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 153 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 32 occurrencesDevonian — about 27 of 32 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 32 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 32 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 32 occurrences423–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–411 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences388–382 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences382–376 Mya — about 2 occurrences376–371 Mya — about 4 occurrences371–365 Mya — about 7 occurrences365–359 Mya — about 13 occurrences359–353 Mya — about 1 occurrence353–347 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences347–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–295 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences295–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–254 Mya — about 2 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413.02 Mya259.857 Mya423 Mya249 Mya

32 occurrences of Richterina 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

32 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

14 formations

Hemberg — 51.37°N, 7.60°EEtroeungt — 51.33°N, 7.05°ELisen — 49.20°N, 16.63°EWhiteway Slate — 50.62°N, 4.20°WMitkov Suite — 48.57°N, 26.63°ECardano — 42.97°N, 0.87°WArqov — 31.97°N, 34.87°EGrenzland — 46.58°N, 13.18°EEpiskopi — 37.32°N, 23.50°EKowala — 50.92°N, 20.58°EDasberg — 51.27°N, 8.50°EDasberger — 51.27°N, 8.53°EWoodruff — 40.69°N, 116.13°WWhiteway Mudstone — 50.62°N, 4.20°W

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The named rock units Richterina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Richterina and its relatives

Devonian

Where Richterina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

239 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Richterina, 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

17 references

Each of the 32 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. 5 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 content0

No picture of Richterina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Richterina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Richterina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itEntomozoidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.