Retziella
No picture of Retziella 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 Retziella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RetziellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 413.02 Mya.
85 occurrences of Retziella 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
85 occurrencesThese 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
10 formations
- Miaokao Formation61
- Kuanti Formation11
- Yarralumla Formation3
- Isfara Formation1
- Havalbet Formation1
- Silverdale Formation1
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The named rock units Retziella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Retziella and its relatives
SilurianWhere Retziella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Howellella19 sites
- Protathyris14 sites
- Striispirifer13 sites
- Atrypoidea11 sites
- Schizophoria (Eoschizophoria) hesta11 sites
- Favosites8 sites
- Spirinella7 sites
- Tryplasma6 sites
- Aesopomum delicatum5 sites
- Atrypa5 sites
- Heliolites5 sites
- Lingula5 sites
- Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea) australis4 sites
- Gastropoda4 sites
- Salopina4 sites
- Spirinella caecistriata4 sites
- Syringopora4 sites
- Batocara3 sites
- Bryozoa3 sites
- Entelophyllum3 sites
- Mucophyllum3 sites
- Ostracoda3 sites
- Phaulactis3 sites
- Squameofavosites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Retziella, 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- Community paleoecology as a geologic tool: the Chinese Ashgillian-Eifelian (latest Ordovician through early Middle Devonian) as an example68
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China10
- Australian communities4
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region1
- Tien-Shan1
- Stratigrafiya i tabulyaty silura Afganistana [Stratigraphy and Tabulata of the Silurian in Afghanistan]1
Each of the 85 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
Media content0
No picture of Retziella 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 Retziella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retziella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRetziellidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nikiforova 1937