Sphenorhynchia plicatella

Sphenorhynchia plicatella is an extinct species of brachiopods belonging to the family Prionorhynchiidae.

Sphenorhynchia plicatella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphenorhynchiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 9.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 7 of 7 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 4 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171.4 Mya161 Mya

7 occurrences of Sphenorhynchia plicatella on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

7 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

2 formations

Inferior Oolite — 50.70°N, 2.72°WOolithe ferrugineuse de Bayeux — 49.03°N, 0.42°W

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The named rock units Sphenorhynchia plicatella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenorhynchia plicatella and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Sphenorhynchia plicatella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Sphenorhynchia plicatella, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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 Sphenorhynchia plicatella

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Sphenorhynchia plicatella was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSphenorhynchia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1825)