Rothpletzella

Rothpletzella

Pellat, Edmond · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
CyanobacteriaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 350 million years on record.

The record covers at least 508.2 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 152.21 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 89 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 9 of 89 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 24 of 89 occurrencesDevonian — about 51 of 89 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 89 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 89 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 89 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 89 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 89 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 89 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 89 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 89 occurrences523–511 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences511–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–435 Mya — about 5 occurrences435–422 Mya — about 24 occurrences422–410 Mya — about 13 occurrences410–397 Mya — about 5 occurrences397–385 Mya — about 14 occurrences385–372 Mya — about 15 occurrences372–359 Mya — about 4 occurrences359–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–145 Mya — about 3 occurrences508.2 Mya157.9 Mya523 Mya145 Mya

89 occurrences of Rothpletzella 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

89 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

42 formations

Ihmert — 51.26°N, 7.65°EYunghsien — 25.33°N, 110.12°EHeceta — 55.78°N, 133.17°WHeceta — 55.78°N, 133.48°WHeceta — 55.73°N, 133.47°WNubrigyn — 32.84°S, 148.99°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°EMuch Wenlock — 53.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WElmside — 34.83°S, 148.92°EHogklint — 57.72°N, 18.40°EHamra — 56.92°N, 18.12°EPillara — 17.40°S, 124.95°EKarakavak — 39.62°N, 72.80°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHamra Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EDolyhir and Nash Scar Limestone — 52.00°N, 3.00°WMuksha Subsuite — 48.62°N, 26.73°EUnterhonsel — 51.36°N, 7.70°EShutskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°ECannindah — 24.88°S, 151.10°ENeuville — 50.17°N, 4.50°EMoulin Liénaux — 50.19°N, 5.24°EWilloughby — 58.63°N, 136.22°W

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The named rock units Rothpletzella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rothpletzella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rothpletzella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

656 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Rothpletzella, 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

44 references

Each of the 89 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. 32 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 Rothpletzella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Pellat, Edmond
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rothpletzella 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 itCyanobacteria through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1948