Oligoptycherhynchus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrigonirhynchiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 390.5 Mya.
13 occurrences of Oligoptycherhynchus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
13 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- l'Armorique Formation3
- Gladbach Formation2
- Kurrenberg Formation1
- Saxler Formation1
- Reudelsterz Formation1
- Neichnerberg Formation1
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The named rock units Oligoptycherhynchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oligoptycherhynchus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Oligoptycherhynchus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Subcuspidella6 sites
- Brachyspirifer4 sites
- Palaeoneilo4 sites
- Pleurodictyum4 sites
- Acrospirifer3 sites
- Athyris3 sites
- Chonetes3 sites
- Nuculites3 sites
- Platyorthis3 sites
- Rhenorensselaeria3 sites
- Anoplotheca2 sites
- Arduspirifer arduennensis2 sites
- Aulopora2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Chonetidae2 sites
- Cornellites2 sites
- Euryspirifer2 sites
- Euryspirifer assimilis2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Homalonotidae2 sites
- Hysterolites2 sites
- Icriodus2 sites
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)2 sites
- Mutationella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Oligoptycherhynchus, 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
6 references- Upper Siegenian and Lower Emsian in the Eifel Hills6
- La limite Lochkovien-Praguien (Devonien inferieur) dans le Massif armoricain: especes index et correlations3
- Beiträge zur Paläontologie des Unterdevons Luxemburgs (4)1
- Brachiopod faunas, facies and biostratigraphy of the Pridolian to lower Eifelian succession in the Rhenish Massif (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany1
- Thamnopora und verwandte ästige tabulate Korallen aus dem Emsium bis Unter-Eifelium von Asturien (Devon; Nord-Spanien) [Thamnopora and related ramose tabulate corals from the Emsian to the Lower Eifelian of Asturias (Devonian; Spain)]1
- Les brachiopodes Rhynchonellida et Terebratulida [Rhynchonellid and terebratulid brachiopods]1
Each of the 13 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 Oligoptycherhynchus
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No 3D scan of Oligoptycherhynchus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itTrigonirhynchiinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sartenaer 1970