Ripidiorhynchus

Ripidiorhynchus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RipidiorhynchinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 353.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 45 of 46 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 46 occurrencesCarboniferous394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence386–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–382 Mya — about 3 occurrences382–380 Mya — about 5 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 5 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 5 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 5 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 5 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 4 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 4 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 2 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 2 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya358.86 Mya394.3 Mya352.9 Mya

46 occurrences of Ripidiorhynchus 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

46 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

13 formations

Ferques — 50.83°N, 1.77°EFerques — 46.00°N, 2.00°EBeaulieu — 50.83°N, 1.77°EBeaulieu — 46.00°N, 2.00°ECalcaire de Ferques — 48.87°N, 2.33°EBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°ESyas — 60.03°N, 32.63°EElets — 52.42°N, 38.92°EZadonsk — 52.42°N, 38.92°ELittle Cedar — 42.37°N, 92.41°WJava — 42.68°N, 78.45°WAouinet Ouenine II — 28.08°N, 13.00°EGriotte — 44.00°N, 4.50°EKowala — 50.73°N, 20.45°EWadleigh Limestone — 55.49°N, 132.36°W

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The named rock units Ripidiorhynchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ripidiorhynchus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Ripidiorhynchus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

301 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Ripidiorhynchus, 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

13 references

Each of the 46 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. 1 further reference is 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

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Picture of Ripidiorhynchus

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No 3D scan of Ripidiorhynchus 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 itRipidiorhynchinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.