Rhabdocyclus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeocyclidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.5 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 451.8 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 20 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 14 of 20 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 20 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.5 Mya430.6 Mya452.4 Mya419 Mya

20 occurrences of Rhabdocyclus 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

20 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

Kõrgessaare — 58.98°N, 22.46°EKõrgessaare — 58.95°N, 22.43°EKõrgessaare — 59.14°N, 24.44°ELaketown Dolomite — 38.50°N, 115.00°WDamery Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WTortworth Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°WAllen Bay — 74.69°N, 94.80°WLouisville Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WLa Vieille — 48.18°N, 64.97°WLojoping — 30.77°N, 111.33°ETakuan — 27.73°N, 103.88°EMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.78°N, 117.42°W

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The named rock units Rhabdocyclus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhabdocyclus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Rhabdocyclus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

351 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Rhabdocyclus, 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

11 references

Each of the 20 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. 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 Rhabdocyclus 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 Rhabdocyclus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhabdocyclus 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 itPalaeocyclidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lang and Smith 1939