Reptaria stolonifera

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ReptariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Reptaria stolonifera on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
21 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
7 formations
- Ludlowville Formation5
- Silica Formation5
- Jaycox Formation · Hamilton Group4
- Skaneateles Formation · Hamilton Group2
- Dawson Bay Formation1
- Moscow Formation1
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The named rock units Reptaria stolonifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Reptaria stolonifera and its relatives
DevonianWhere Reptaria stolonifera and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
230 taxa- Eldredgeops rana10 sites
- Longispina10 sites
- Mediospirifer audaculus10 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus9 sites
- Devonochonetes scitulus8 sites
- Greenops boothi8 sites
- Mucrospirifer mucronatus8 sites
- Platyostoma lineata8 sites
- Pleurodictyum8 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana8 sites
- Styliolina fissurella8 sites
- Athyris spiriferoides7 sites
- Devonochonetes7 sites
- Hederella7 sites
- Heterophrentis7 sites
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)7 sites
- Michelinoceras7 sites
- Sulcoretepora7 sites
- Aulocystis6 sites
- Cypricardinia indenta6 sites
- Heliophyllum halli6 sites
- Lingula6 sites
- Modiomorpha6 sites
- Nuculites6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Reptaria stolonifera, 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
6 references- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis5
- Comparative Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Middle Devonian Dark Gray and Black Shale Facies from Western New York5
- Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation5
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Jaycox Shale Member, Hamilton Group of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State4
- Fauna of the Manitoba Group, from Manitoba, Canada1
- The age and fossils of the Olentangy Shale of central Ohio1
Each of the 21 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
Media content1

Picture of Reptaria stolonifera
- 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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What may have been alongside itReptaria through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rolle 1851