Romundina stellina

Apokryltaros · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- RomundinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 416.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Romundina stellina 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- 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 Romundina stellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Romundina stellina and its relatives
DevonianWhere Romundina stellina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Adinophyllum smithi1 site
- Ambocoelia1 site
- Ancillotoechia1 site
- Asymmetrochonetes1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Cymostrophia1 site
- Cyrtina1 site
- Gypidula1 site
- Iridistrophia1 site
- Machaeraria obesa1 site
- Mesodouvillina1 site
- Nicollidina remscheidensis1 site
- Ozarkodina remscheidensis remscheidensis1 site
- Protocortezorthis1 site
- Protopteraspis1 site
- Romundina gagnieri1 site
- Schizophoria1 site
- Sophialepis1 site
- Undispirifer laeviplicatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Romundina stellina, 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
2 references- A new ‘acanthothoracid’ placoderm from the Arctic Canada (Early Devonian) and its bearing on the evolution of jaws and teeth1
- Description, with special reference to the dermal skeleton, of a new Radotinid arthrodire from the Gedinnian of Arctic Canada1
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. 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 content1

Picture of Romundina stellina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Apokryltaros
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Romundina stellina 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 itRomundina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Orvig 1975