Retiolites geinitzianus

Retiolites geinitzianus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RetiolitesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Graptoloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 36 occurrencesSilurian — about 36 of 36 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 3 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 3 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 3 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya426.7 Mya443.6 Mya422.2 Mya

36 occurrences of Retiolites geinitzianus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

36 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

12 formations

Williamson Shale — 43.22°N, 77.19°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 78.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WWilliamson — 43.20°N, 77.62°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 77.21°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 76.98°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 76.30°WWilliamson — 43.24°N, 76.14°WGreengrove — 33.00°S, 149.00°ERoad River — 66.72°N, 135.82°WLientan — 22.93°N, 111.72°EQiaergaye — 45.95°N, 83.62°EYuanbaoshan — 40.50°N, 100.10°EIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WWillowvale — 43.03°N, 75.28°WRoad River — 64.96°N, 141.21°WGrès Siliceux Horizontaux — 10.81°N, 13.09°WGazelle — 41.51°N, 122.59°W

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The named rock units Retiolites geinitzianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Retiolites geinitzianus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Retiolites geinitzianus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Retiolites geinitzianus, 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

15 references

Each of the 36 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. 3 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

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Picture of Retiolites geinitzianus

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No 3D scan of Retiolites geinitzianus 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 itRetiolites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1850