Allorhynchus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AllorhynchidaePBDB
- 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 104 million years on record.
The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
86 occurrences of Allorhynchus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
86 occurrences- Devonian2%
- Carboniferous5%
- Permian93%
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
19 formations
- Word Formation31
- Bell Canyon Formation19
- Cherry Canyon Formation9
- Wargal Formation5
- Road Canyon Formation3
- Capitan Formation3
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The named rock units Allorhynchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Allorhynchus and its relatives
PermianWhere Allorhynchus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,111 taxa- Dielasma32 sites
- Derbyia28 sites
- Meekella skenoides26 sites
- Liosotella wordensis25 sites
- Reticulariina24 sites
- Cyclacantharia kingorum23 sites
- Hustedia20 sites
- Composita parasulcata19 sites
- Cooperina inexpectata19 sites
- Derbyia filosa19 sites
- Echinosteges tuberculatus19 sites
- Xenosteges quadratus19 sites
- Derbyia texta18 sites
- Derbyia pannucia17 sites
- Dyoros (Dyoros) extensus17 sites
- Heteralosia hystricula17 sites
- Heteralosia magnispina17 sites
- Composita enormis16 sites
- Tropidelasma gregarium16 sites
- Composita15 sites
- Echinauris lateralis15 sites
- Pseudodielasma15 sites
- Anteridocus swallovianus14 sites
- Martinia rhomboidalis14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Allorhynchus, 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
13 references- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI67
- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range6
- Paleozoic brachiopods from Xizang (Tibet)2
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Louisiana Limestone of Missouri2
- Lopingian (Late Permian) brachiopods from South China. Part 1. Orthotetida, Orthida and Rhynchonellida1
- Reexamination of the brachiopod fauna from the Permian Karita Formation, southwest Japan1
- Late Changxingian brachiopods from Huatang of Chenxian County, southern Hunan1
- Upper Devonian and lower Tournaisian Rhynchonellida in Czechoslovakia1
- Mid-Permian brachiopods from Khao Phrik, Thailand1
- Stratigraphy and Depositional Environment of the New Albany Shale (Upper Devonian and Lower Mississippian) in Indiana1
- Mississippian Joana Limestone of Cordilleran miogeosyncline and use of Ca/Mg ratio in correlation1
- Notes on Permian rhynchonellids1
Each of the 86 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. 1 further reference is 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 Allorhynchus
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Allorhynchus 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 itAllorhynchidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.