Rhenopyrgus

Rhenopyrgus is an extinct echinoderm in the class Edrioasteroidea, which existed during the Devonian in what is now France and Germany, the Ordovician in Iowa and Illinois, U.S.A.; and the Silurian of Argentina. It was described by Dehm in 1961, and the type species is R. coronaeformis, which was originally described by J. Rievers as a species in the genus Pyrgocystis, in 1961.

No picture of Rhenopyrgus 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 Rhenopyrgus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhenopyrgidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 399.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 10 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 10 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 6 of 10 occurrencesDevonian451–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445.5 Mya410.62 Mya451 Mya398 Mya

10 occurrences of Rhenopyrgus 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

10 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

7 formations

Hunsrück Slate — 49.83°N, 7.37°EBrainard Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNeda — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSaint-Cenere — 48.00°N, 0.50°WSouth Threave — 55.29°N, 4.76°WMerzâ- Akhsaï — 29.90°N, 6.85°WLos Espejos — 30.30°S, 68.76°W

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The named rock units Rhenopyrgus 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.

Rhenopyrgus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rhenopyrgus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Rhenopyrgus, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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

Media content0

No picture of Rhenopyrgus 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 Rhenopyrgus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhenopyrgus 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.

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 itRhenopyrgidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dehm 1961)