Rostricellula

Rostricellula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RostricellulinaePBDB
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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 349 of 369 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 20 of 369 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 369 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 4 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 11 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 11 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 11 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 11 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 11 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 21 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 30 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 42 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 41 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 40 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 46 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 27 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 12 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 12 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 13 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 8 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 6 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 4 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461.1 Mya432.9 Mya472 Mya419 Mya

369 occurrences of Rostricellula on record, most of them in the Ordovician. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

369 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

117 formations

Valcour — 44.87°N, 73.48°WValcour — 44.61°N, 73.41°WValcour — 44.68°N, 73.32°WValcour — 44.85°N, 73.39°WValcour — 43.97°N, 73.39°WMangazea — 63.00°N, 92.00°EMangazea — 63.00°N, 100.00°EMangazea — 63.00°N, 95.00°EMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.56°EMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.49°EMangazea — 62.15°N, 91.43°EMangazea — 62.22°N, 102.13°ELebanon Limestone — 35.80°N, 86.13°WLebanon Limestone — 35.47°N, 86.80°WLebanon Limestone — 35.97°N, 86.45°WLebanon Limestone — 35.45°N, 86.88°WLebanon Limestone — 36.00°N, 86.45°WLebanon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLebanon Limestone — 36.15°N, 86.28°WLebanon Limestone — 35.48°N, 86.45°WDolbor — 63.00°N, 95.00°EDolbor — 62.14°N, 91.56°EDolbor — 62.14°N, 91.49°EDolbor — 62.15°N, 91.43°EDolbor — 62.95°N, 108.60°EBenbolt — 36.72°N, 82.68°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.02°N, 81.63°WBenbolt — 37.22°N, 81.36°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.10°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.32°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WAylmer — 45.63°N, 74.59°WAylmer — 45.62°N, 74.70°WAylmer — 45.02°N, 74.73°WAylmer — 45.55°N, 75.29°WAylmer — 45.37°N, 75.70°WAylmer — 45.38°N, 75.80°WAylmer — 45.44°N, 75.93°WFlags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WLebanon — 36.08°N, 86.03°WLebanon — 35.47°N, 86.80°WLebanon — 35.81°N, 86.12°WLebanon — 35.81°N, 86.18°WLebanon — 36.04°N, 86.35°WWardell — 37.07°N, 81.53°WWardell — 37.00°N, 81.00°WWardell — 37.03°N, 81.79°WWardell — 37.02°N, 81.73°WWardell — 37.10°N, 81.34°WFombuena — 41.13°N, 1.21°WFombuena — 41.00°N, 1.00°WFombuena — 41.23°N, 1.06°WZagornyi — 68.00°N, 88.00°EZagornyi — 62.00°N, 90.00°EEsbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.73°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.75°WSunblood — 62.00°N, 126.00°WSunblood — 61.72°N, 125.93°WNautiloidea Sandstone — 30.29°N, 36.21°ELa Chilca — 30.30°S, 68.67°WLa Chilca — 30.33°S, 68.79°WLa Chilca — 30.63°S, 68.75°WCliffield — 37.10°N, 81.34°WCliffield — 37.15°N, 81.49°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WCarters — 35.86°N, 86.59°WCarters — 36.19°N, 85.95°WKuldiga — 57.28°N, 25.41°EKuldiga — 56.78°N, 21.86°EKuldiga — 56.46°N, 26.03°EKuldiga — 56.44°N, 21.61°EDzerom — 67.37°N, 104.10°ELaval — 45.58°N, 74.00°WLaval — 47.00°N, 72.00°WLaval — 45.48°N, 73.90°WMoccasin — 35.96°N, 83.92°WMoccasin — 36.75°N, 82.25°WRidley Limestone — 35.82°N, 86.32°WWhittaker — 61.63°N, 125.73°WWhittaker — 61.72°N, 125.93°WWhittaker — 62.12°N, 126.68°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.15°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 38.16°N, 84.85°W

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The named rock units Rostricellula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 93 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rostricellula and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rostricellula and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,454 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 337 sites for Rostricellula, and this reads 240 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

87 references

Each of the 369 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. 75 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 content1

Picture of Rostricellula

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No 3D scan of Rostricellula 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 itRostricellulinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Cooper 1942