Rayonnoceras solidiforme

Rayonnoceras solidiforme

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RayonnocerasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Actinocerida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Actinocerida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Actinocerida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 6.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 330.3 Mya and 323.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 16 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferous331–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330.8 Mya323.1 Mya

16 occurrences of Rayonnoceras solidiforme on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

16 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

3 formations

Fayetteville — 35.95°N, 93.98°WFayetteville — 35.89°N, 92.90°WFayetteville — 35.86°N, 92.58°WFayetteville — 35.89°N, 92.80°WFayetteville — 36.06°N, 94.13°WFayetteville — 36.00°N, 94.08°WFayetteville — 36.03°N, 93.17°WFayetteville — 35.20°N, 92.35°WFayetteville — 35.80°N, 91.92°WFayetteville — 36.05°N, 94.17°WRest Spring — 36.78°N, 117.46°WPitkin — 36.04°N, 92.79°W

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

Rayonnoceras solidiforme and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Rayonnoceras solidiforme and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Rayonnoceras solidiforme, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 16 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Rayonnoceras solidiforme

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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 itRayonnoceras through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Croneis 1926