Rhenozyga

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeozygopleuridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 379 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 375.2 Mya.

Devonian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesDevonian411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences399.5 Mya379 Mya411.3 Mya374.5 Mya

6 occurrences of Rhenozyga 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

6 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

4 formations

Kowala — 50.80°N, 20.57°EKowala — 50.92°N, 20.63°EBurdekin — 20.00°S, 146.00°ELimestone Mountain — 63.27°N, 154.55°WPlattenkalk — 51.02°N, 7.20°E

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

Rhenozyga and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rhenozyga and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

71 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Rhenozyga, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 Rhenozyga 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 Rhenozyga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhenozyga 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 itPalaeozygopleuridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frýda 2000)