Raphistoma

Raphistoma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RaphistomatidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphalina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphalina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Euomphalina
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 107 occurrencesOrdovician — about 107 of 107 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 107 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 1 occurrence476–474 Mya — about 1 occurrence474–473 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 9 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 8 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 8 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 7 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 7 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 7 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 8 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 8 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 3 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 6 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477.1 Mya449.5 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

107 occurrences of Raphistoma 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

107 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

43 formations

Crown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WCrown Point — 44.88°N, 73.44°WCrown Point — 44.63°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 44.87°N, 73.33°WCrown Point — 44.68°N, 73.45°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WDay Point — 44.87°N, 73.48°WDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.44°WDay Point — 44.68°N, 73.45°WValcour — 44.89°N, 73.44°WValcour — 44.61°N, 73.41°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WAylmer — 45.63°N, 74.59°WAylmer — 45.62°N, 74.70°WAylmer — 45.55°N, 75.29°WAylmer — 45.37°N, 75.70°WAylmer — 45.39°N, 75.84°WAylmer — 45.57°N, 73.53°WLaval — 45.58°N, 74.00°WLaval — 47.00°N, 72.00°WLaval — 45.48°N, 73.90°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WHonghuayuan — 27.00°N, 105.00°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EBromide — 34.41°N, 96.98°WUpper Ktaoua — 30.72°N, 5.60°WUpper Ktaoua — 30.00°N, 5.50°WMingan — 50.30°N, 64.05°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.06°WDay Point — 50.20°N, 63.50°WCrown Point — 50.20°N, 63.50°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WValcour — 50.20°N, 63.50°WFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°ETable Point — 50.37°N, 57.54°WAntelope Valley — 38.96°N, 116.49°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°W

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The named rock units Raphistoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Raphistoma and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Raphistoma and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

755 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Raphistoma, 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

33 references

Each of the 107 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. 21 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 content1

Picture of Raphistoma

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Hall 1847)