Rhinidictya

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhinidictyidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 159 of 160 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 160 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 10 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 32 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 33 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 36 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 31 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 10 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458.2 Mya425 Mya472 Mya422 Mya

160 occurrences of Rhinidictya 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

160 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

34 formations

Lexington Limestone — 38.35°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 38.22°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 37.84°N, 84.59°WLexington Limestone — 37.90°N, 84.26°WLexington Limestone — 37.68°N, 84.76°WCarters — 35.80°N, 86.20°WCarters — 35.81°N, 86.13°WCarters — 36.14°N, 86.38°WCarters — 35.86°N, 86.59°WCarters — 36.19°N, 85.95°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.56°WBenbolt — 37.11°N, 81.52°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.27°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.67°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WLebanon — 36.14°N, 86.38°WLebanon — 35.47°N, 86.80°WLebanon — 35.81°N, 86.12°WLebanon — 35.81°N, 86.18°WLebanon — 36.04°N, 86.35°WCatheys — 35.82°N, 86.83°WCatheys — 36.45°N, 85.58°WCatheys — 35.19°N, 86.91°WCatheys — 35.17°N, 87.04°WLebanon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHermitage — 35.81°N, 86.12°WHermitage — 36.29°N, 85.99°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WRidley Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WPierce Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WTyrone — 37.78°N, 84.61°WDecorah — 43.12°N, 91.27°WLantz Mills — 38.53°N, 78.60°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBigby-Cannon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WMoccasin — 36.75°N, 82.25°WWenchang — 29.00°N, 119.00°ECummingsville — 44.00°N, 92.45°WZagornyi — 68.00°N, 88.00°ELindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.75°N, 81.63°W

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The named rock units Rhinidictya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhinidictya and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rhinidictya and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

829 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 148 sites for Rhinidictya, 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

22 references

Each of the 160 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Rhinidictya 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 Rhinidictya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhinidictya 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 itRhinidictyidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1882