Retichonetes obscurus
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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 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Retichonetes obscurus 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
2 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
- Java Formation · West Falls Group1
- Percha Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Retichonetes obscurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retichonetes obscurus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Retichonetes obscurus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Cyrtospirifer2 sites
- Acanthatia nupera1 site
- Ambocoelia1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Barroisella1 site
- Chapinella1 site
- Composita1 site
- Cyrtiorina1 site
- Galeatella galeata1 site
- Icriodus1 site
- Icriodus alternatus1 site
- Laminatia laminata1 site
- Leioproductus pauperculus1 site
- Leioproductus plicatus1 site
- Leioproductus varispinosus1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Oiosia1 site
- Orbiculoidea1 site
- Palmatolepis1 site
- Paurorhyncha1 site
- Petasmaria1 site
- Planoproductus hillsboroensis1 site
- Polygnathus1 site
- Porostictia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Retichonetes obscurus, 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
2 references- Post-extinction survivor fauna from the lowermost Famennian of eastern North America1
- Devonian brachiopods of New Mexico1
Each of the 2 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 obscurus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Retichonetes obscurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itRetichonetes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Dutro 1982