Rhabdinopora

Searched as Rhabdinopora cf. canadensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Rhabdinopora as the accepted name.

Rhabdinopora is a genus of graptolites belonging to the family Anisograptidae. It is the earliest planktic graptolite and is presumably the ancestor of all later planktic graptoloids. Some species identified as the first planktid graptolite are:Rhabdinopora proparabola Rhabdinopora praeparabola Rhabdinopora parabola Rhabdinopora flabelliformis

Rhabdinopora

Siim Sepp · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 9.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician — about 1 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician487–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487.4 Mya476.6 Mya

1 occurrence of Rhabdinopora 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

1 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

1 formation

El Santísimo — 28.92°N, 109.29°W

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The named rock units Rhabdinopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Rhabdinopora and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rhabdinopora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Rhabdinopora, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Rhabdinopora

Credit
Siim Sepp
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhabdinopora 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAnisograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1860