Retichonetes armata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RetichonetesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Retichonetes armata 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Retichonetes armata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retichonetes armata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Retichonetes armata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Adolfia2 sites
- Athyris2 sites
- Cyrtospirifer verneuili2 sites
- Douvillina dutertrei2 sites
- Eoschuchertella2 sites
- Productella subaculeata2 sites
- Ripidiorhynchus2 sites
- Spinatrypa2 sites
- Adolfia ibergensis1 site
- Dechenella verticalis1 site
- Douvillina dorlodoti1 site
- Lingularia squamiformis1 site
- Longispina1 site
- Nervostrophia1 site
- Nervostrophia latissima1 site
- Productella larminati1 site
- Quadratispina excelsa1 site
- Schizophoria striatula1 site
- Torleyiscutellum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Retichonetes armata, 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- Brachiopod assemblages in the Devonian of Ferques (Boulonnais, France). Relations to palaeoenvironments and global eustatic curves.4
- Description d’une faune frasnienne inférieure du bord nord du bassin de Namur1
Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Retichonetes armata 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 Retichonetes armata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retichonetes armata 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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What may have been alongside itRetichonetes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bouchard-Chanteraux and de Vernueil 1845)