Sulcirhynchia
Renaux · 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
- CyclothyridinaePBDB
- 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 least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 113.2 Mya.
50 occurrences of Sulcirhynchia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
50 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
10 formations
- Levashi Formation5
- Atherfield Clay Formation · Lower Greensand Group3
- Hythe Formation · Lower Greensand Group3
- Ferruginous Sands Formation · Lower Greensand Group2
- Marnes d'Uttins Formation2
- Tamanar Formation1
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The named rock units Sulcirhynchia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sulcirhynchia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Sulcirhynchia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
350 taxa- Sellithyris sella8 sites
- Exogyra6 sites
- Plicarostrum aubersonense6 sites
- Cymatoceras pseudoelegans5 sites
- Lamellaerhynchia hauteriviensis5 sites
- Loriolithyris valdensis5 sites
- Natica5 sites
- Sphaera corrugata5 sites
- Arca4 sites
- Belbekella lata4 sites
- Dufrenoyia4 sites
- Holaster4 sites
- Lamellaerhynchia desori4 sites
- Lamellaerhynchia rostriformis4 sites
- Lepidorhynchia dichotoma4 sites
- Nerinea4 sites
- Oblongarcula oblonga4 sites
- Pleurotomaria4 sites
- Plicarostrum hauteriviense4 sites
- Pygurus4 sites
- Reptomulticava4 sites
- Terebratula4 sites
- Tropaeum4 sites
- Tropaeum (Tropaeum) bowerbanki4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Sulcirhynchia, 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
10 references- Die Rhynchonelliden der Unteren Kreide (Valanginien-Barremien) im westschweizerischen Juragebirge25
- Early Cretaceous Rhynchonellids of Dagestan: System, Morphology, Stratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Significance8
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand7
- The Lower Cretaceous Brachiopods of east-central Sardinia2
- Die Typus-Profile des Valanginien und Hauterivien2
- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois2
- Lower Aptian brachiopods from the Mountainous Mangyshlak1
- Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sedimentary dynamics of the Lower Cretaceous deposits on the northern side of the western High Atlas (Morocco)1
- The stratigraphy of the Atherfield Clay Formation (Lower Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) at the type and other localities in southern England1
- British Neocomian Rhynchonelloid Brachiopods1
Each of the 50 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 Sulcirhynchia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Renaux
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sulcirhynchia 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 itCyclothyridinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Burri 1953