Rectangulina

No picture of Rectangulina 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 Rectangulina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PorostromataPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Porostromata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Porostromata
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Porostromata
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 307 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346.7 Mya307 Mya360 Mya303 Mya

6 occurrences of Rectangulina 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

6 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

2 formations

Pitkin — 35.93°N, 94.02°WPitkin — 35.80°N, 92.53°WSan Emiliano — 42.95°N, 5.55°W

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The named rock units Rectangulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rectangulina and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Rectangulina and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Rectangulina, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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

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No picture of Rectangulina 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 Rectangulina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rectangulina was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPorostromata through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.