Diabolirhynchia

Diabolirhynchia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EatoniidaePBDB
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 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 9 of 9 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 9 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433.4 Mya419.1 Mya

9 occurrences of Diabolirhynchia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

9 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

4 formations

Waldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WWayne — 36.08°N, 87.00°WSangui Sandstone — 11.00°N, 14.00°W

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The named rock units Diabolirhynchia 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.

Diabolirhynchia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Diabolirhynchia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Diabolirhynchia, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Diabolirhynchia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diabolirhynchia 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itEatoniidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.