Caucasorhynchia altaplecta

No picture of Caucasorhynchia altaplecta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Caucasorhynchia altaplecta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaucasorhynchiaPBDB
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 6.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 12 of 15 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 3 of 15 occurrencesLate Triassic247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 3 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243.43 Mya237 Mya247.5 Mya233.1 Mya

15 occurrences of Caucasorhynchia altaplecta on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

15 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

9 formations

Felsõörs — 47.01°N, 17.93°EFelsõörs — 46.89°N, 17.63°EWetterstein Limestone — 47.00°N, 15.00°EEsino — 45.91°N, 9.69°EFavret — 39.86°N, 117.49°WFelsõörs Limestone — 46.88°N, 17.60°EWetterstein — 48.47°N, 20.53°ERecoaro — 47.01°N, 17.93°EVászoly — 47.14°N, 18.02°EBulog — 43.85°N, 18.48°E

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The named rock units Caucasorhynchia altaplecta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Caucasorhynchia altaplecta and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Caucasorhynchia altaplecta and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Caucasorhynchia altaplecta, 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

Each of the 15 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 content0

No picture of Caucasorhynchia altaplecta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Caucasorhynchia altaplecta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Caucasorhynchia altaplecta 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 itCaucasorhynchia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bockh 1872)