Rigbyella girtyi
No picture of Rigbyella girtyi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Rigbyella girtyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RigbyellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lyttoniidina
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Rigbyella girtyi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
8 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Rigbyella girtyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rigbyella girtyi and its relatives
PermianWhere Rigbyella girtyi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Derbyia8 sites
- Allorhynchus venustulum7 sites
- Martinia rhomboidalis7 sites
- Ombonia guadalupensis7 sites
- Reticulariina7 sites
- Sarganostega pressa7 sites
- Tautosia elegans7 sites
- Anomaloria anomala6 sites
- Aphaurosia scutata6 sites
- Arionthia lamaria6 sites
- Astegosia subquadrata6 sites
- Collemataria spatulata6 sites
- Composita affinis6 sites
- Deltarina magnicostata6 sites
- Dielasma6 sites
- Heteralosia magnispina6 sites
- Orbicoelia guadalupensis6 sites
- Paraspiriferina billingsi6 sites
- Tropidelasma gregarium6 sites
- Anteridocus swallovianus5 sites
- Crenispirifer myllus5 sites
- Dielasma cordatum5 sites
- Fascicosta longaeva5 sites
- Heterelasma venustulum5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Rigbyella girtyi, 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 referencesEach of the 8 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.
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No picture of Rigbyella girtyi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Rigbyella girtyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rigbyella girtyi 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 itRigbyella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wanner and Sieverts 1935)