Retiolitidae

Retiolitidae is an extinct family of graptolites. One subfamily, the Retiolitinae, is characterized by meshwork-like tubaria.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RetiolitoideaPBDB
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 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 470.3 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 461 occurrencesOrdovician — about 204 of 461 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 257 of 461 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 461 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 4 occurrences477–474 Mya — about 8 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 8 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 10 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 10 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 8 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 6 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 19 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 37 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 16 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 12 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 14 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 16 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 17 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 14 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 38 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 53 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 48 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 45 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 36 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 13 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 13 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 9 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 4 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence421–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470.3 Mya422.7 Mya488 Mya418 Mya

461 occurrences of Retiolitidae 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

461 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

153 formations

Cape Phillips — 75.13°N, 95.00°WCape Phillips — 73.38°N, 99.07°WCape Phillips — 75.18°N, 93.93°WCape Phillips — 75.88°N, 94.80°WCape Phillips — 76.70°N, 96.88°WCape Phillips — 75.43°N, 94.33°WCape Phillips — 78.53°N, 83.32°WRoad River — 68.17°N, 137.00°WRoad River — 65.35°N, 133.50°WRoad River — 65.28°N, 135.70°WRoad River — 65.38°N, 140.30°WRoad River — 66.17°N, 136.08°WRoad River — 66.72°N, 135.82°WRoad River — 64.92°N, 140.99°WRoad River — 65.40°N, 137.38°WDescon — 55.63°N, 133.57°WDescon — 55.52°N, 133.30°WDescon — 55.50°N, 133.62°WPhi Kappa — 43.85°N, 114.18°WRoad River — 65.02°N, 141.21°WRoad River — 65.19°N, 141.32°WRoad River — 64.95°N, 141.04°WRoad River — 65.96°N, 141.20°WNingguo — 29.00°N, 115.00°ENingguo — 28.00°N, 118.00°ENingguo — 30.00°N, 120.00°ENingguo — 30.00°N, 119.00°ENingguo — 29.00°N, 119.00°ESakmara — 51.50°N, 58.03°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 109.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 30.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 115.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 118.00°EWufeng — 30.00°N, 117.00°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 27.00°N, 105.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 109.00°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 105.00°EHule — 29.00°N, 115.00°EHule — 28.00°N, 118.00°EHule — 29.00°N, 119.00°EHule — 31.00°N, 120.00°EHule — 30.00°N, 120.00°ELientan — 22.93°N, 111.72°EWilliamson 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°WMotol — 50.08°N, 14.47°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 50.07°N, 14.33°EMotol — 50.03°N, 14.42°EVaureal — 49.73°N, 62.95°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WNanjiang — 33.00°N, 107.00°EFurudal — 60.91°N, 15.02°EFurudal — 61.05°N, 15.20°EFurudal — 60.92°N, 15.09°EXiaoshihugou — 37.95°N, 101.05°EWilliamson — 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°WTekhten — 51.23°N, 84.74°ETekhten — 51.44°N, 83.15°ETekhten — 51.33°N, 83.02°EDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 29.00°N, 109.00°EDawan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 33.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 32.00°N, 108.00°EMiaopo — 31.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 32.00°N, 118.00°EPengjiayuan — 30.77°N, 111.33°EMirrabooka — 33.31°S, 148.87°EIrene Bay — 75.30°N, 95.13°WIrene Bay — 74.98°N, 95.88°W

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The named rock units Retiolitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 129 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 99 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Retiolitidae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Retiolitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,226 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 319 sites for Retiolitidae, and this reads 240 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

125 references

Each of the 461 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. 113 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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No picture of Retiolitidae 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 Retiolitidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Retiolitidae 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lapworth 1873