Rafinesquinidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StrophomenoideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 154 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 322.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
4,049 occurrences of Rafinesquinidae on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
4,049 occurrences- Ordovician66%
- Silurian21%
- Devonian9%
- Carboniferous3%
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
749 formations
- Martinsburg Formation144
- Waynesville Formation · Richmondian Group135
- Lexington Limestone Formation94
- Kope Formation · Cincinnati Group89
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group71
- Liberty Formation · Richmondian Group63
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The named rock units Rafinesquinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 725 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 399 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rafinesquinidae and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rafinesquinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
1,918 taxa- Leptaena99 sites
- Rafinesquina76 sites
- Platystrophia60 sites
- Crinoidea54 sites
- Zygospira50 sites
- Flexicalymene49 sites
- Sowerbyella48 sites
- Strophomena45 sites
- Onniella43 sites
- Modiolopsis42 sites
- Hallopora41 sites
- Ctenodonta39 sites
- Tentaculites39 sites
- Dalmanella38 sites
- Hebertella38 sites
- Atrypa36 sites
- Nuculites35 sites
- Isotelus33 sites
- Cyclonema32 sites
- Lingula32 sites
- Sinuites32 sites
- Dolerorthis30 sites
- Skenidioides30 sites
- Lophospira29 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,687 sites for Rafinesquinidae, and this reads 240 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
548 references- Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA544
- Ordovician strophomenoid brachiopods of northern Estonia198
- Community gradients in the Martinsburg Fm. (Ord.) southwestern Virginia82
- GIS-based biogeography of Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician) brachiopods with special reference to Hebertella81
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario79
- Late Ordovician and Early Silurian strophomenid brachiopods of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada78
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York73
- Ecological restructuring after extinction: the Late Ordovician (Mohawkian) of the eastern United States72
- Early Llandovery brachiopods of Wales67
- Silurian brachiopods Dictyonellida, Strophomenida, Productida, Orthotetida, Protorthida and Orthida from Estonia52
- The Chazy Formation and its fauna51
- Paleoecology of the Martinsburg Formation at Catawba Mountain, Virginia50
Each of the 4,049 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. 536 further references are 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 content0
No picture of Rafinesquinidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Rafinesquinidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rafinesquinidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert 1893