Receptaculitidae

Receptaculitidae

Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster) [1] · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChlorophyceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 101 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 168 occurrencesOrdovician — about 129 of 168 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 20 of 168 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 19 of 168 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 168 occurrences489–485 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences485–481 Mya — about 2 occurrences481–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–472 Mya — about 8 occurrences472–467 Mya — about 9 occurrences467–463 Mya — about 6 occurrences463–458 Mya — about 6 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 29 occurrences454–449 Mya — about 48 occurrences449–445 Mya — about 14 occurrences445–441 Mya — about 5 occurrences441–436 Mya — about 5 occurrences436–432 Mya — about 5 occurrences432–427 Mya — about 7 occurrences427–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences414–410 Mya — about 4 occurrences410–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–401 Mya — about 1 occurrence401–396 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences396–392 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences392–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–378 Mya — about 2 occurrences378–374 Mya — about 3 occurrences374–370 Mya — about 2 occurrences370–365 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences365–361 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya375.2 Mya489 Mya356 Mya

168 occurrences of Receptaculitidae 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

168 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

62 formations

Bad Cache Rapids — 69.21°N, 82.65°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.50°N, 81.80°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.33°N, 81.78°WBad Cache Rapids — 66.92°N, 84.00°WBad Cache Rapids — 66.85°N, 83.83°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.90°N, 82.03°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.88°N, 82.30°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.71°N, 81.94°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.00°N, 81.67°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.48°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.75°N, 81.63°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.34°N, 82.37°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.36°N, 82.00°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.38°N, 82.31°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.25°WWardell — 37.08°N, 81.55°WWardell — 37.10°N, 81.34°WWardell — 37.00°N, 81.00°WWardell — 37.02°N, 81.73°WWardell — 37.03°N, 81.79°WWardell — 37.06°N, 81.75°WAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WAmadjuak — 65.25°N, 73.17°WAmadjuak — 66.00°N, 69.83°WAmadjuak — 68.80°N, 81.24°WFarr — 47.42°N, 79.60°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.65°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.65°WFarr — 47.42°N, 79.48°WPortage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.00°WPortage Chute — 56.50°N, 94.25°WPortage Chute — 58.50°N, 95.00°WBobcaygeon — 44.67°N, 78.80°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WCliffield — 37.00°N, 81.00°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.55°WCliffield — 37.10°N, 81.34°WAntelope Valley — 36.93°N, 117.16°WAntelope Valley — 36.33°N, 116.97°WAntelope Valley — 36.39°N, 116.96°WRacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.07°EGarden City — 41.83°N, 111.60°WGarden City — 41.52°N, 111.94°WGarden City — 40.89°N, 112.82°WKanosh Shale — 38.60°N, 113.75°WKanosh Shale — 38.85°N, 113.46°WKanosh Shale — 38.87°N, 113.42°WLangara — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangara — 59.88°N, 10.59°ERead Bay — 75.00°N, 95.00°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WWilliamson Shale — 43.22°N, 76.82°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.70°WKoh-e Giru — 33.98°N, 68.05°EKoh-e Giru — 33.87°N, 67.93°ETabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.38°EZebra Cliffs — 82.75°N, 76.90°WZebra Cliffs — 82.74°N, 76.80°WFillmore Limestone — 39.89°N, 113.37°WFillmore Limestone — 38.84°N, 113.46°WIrene Bay — 74.98°N, 95.88°WIrene Bay — 75.46°N, 96.14°WKochakan — 67.54°N, 104.17°ELehman — 38.84°N, 114.23°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°W

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The named rock units Receptaculitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Receptaculitidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Receptaculitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,394 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 150 sites for Receptaculitidae, 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

67 references

Each of the 168 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. 55 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 Receptaculitidae

Credit
Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster) [1]
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Receptaculitidae 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. Eichwald 1860