Reuschella inexpectata
No picture of Reuschella inexpectata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Reuschella inexpectata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ReuschellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 440.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Reuschella inexpectata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician50%
- Silurian50%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Reuschella inexpectata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Reuschella inexpectata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Reuschella inexpectata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Brachiopoda1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Dalmanellidae1 site
- Eocoelia1 site
- Eoplectodonta1 site
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata1 site
- Euomphalidae1 site
- Fardenia1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hindella1 site
- Leangella scissa1 site
- Meifodia1 site
- Meifodia subundata1 site
- Platyceratidae1 site
- Plectambonitoidea1 site
- Rugosa1 site
- Spirigerina (Eospirigerina) gaspeensis1 site
- Zygospirididae indet.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Reuschella inexpectata, 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- The Ordovician-Silurian boundary at Keisley, northern England1
- The Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Garth area of southwest Powys, Wales1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Reuschella inexpectata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Reuschella inexpectata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Reuschella inexpectata 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 itReuschella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Temple 1968