Rhenomphalus germanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhenomphalusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhenomphalus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhenomphalus
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhenomphalus
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Rhenomphalus germanus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
- Massenkalk Formation1
- Bücheler Formation1
- Torquay Formation · Tamar Group1
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The named rock units Rhenomphalus germanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhenomphalus germanus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Rhenomphalus germanus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Bellerophon lineatus3 sites
- Clathronema reticulata3 sites
- Devonorhineoderma orbignyana3 sites
- Philoxene laevis3 sites
- Whidbornia trochoides3 sites
- Agnesia nodulosa2 sites
- Champernownia champernowni2 sites
- Coloniacirrus bifida2 sites
- Devonorhineoderma lonsdalei2 sites
- Murchisonia sandbergeri2 sites
- Odontomaria semiplicata2 sites
- Paraporcellia cornuarietis2 sites
- Rhenomphalus rota2 sites
- Spanionema scalaroides2 sites
- Turbonitella ussheri2 sites
- Villmaria subclathrata2 sites
- Aglaoglypta hicksii1 site
- Agniesella cancellata1 site
- Agniesella chudleighensis1 site
- Alaskozygopleura hainensis1 site
- Antitrochus arietinus1 site
- Astralites sublimbatus1 site
- Australonema acuta1 site
- Babinicardia clathrata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rhenomphalus germanus, 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
2 references- Mitteldevonische (Givetische) Gastropoden (Mollusca) aus der Lahnmulde (suedliches Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)2
- A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume I - Part IV. The fauna of the limestones of Lummaton, Wolborough, Chircombe Bridge, and Chudleigh1
Each of the 3 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 Rhenomphalus germanus 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 Rhenomphalus germanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhenomphalus germanus 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.
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What may have been alongside itRhenomphalus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Phillips 1841)