Rhinoferus

No picture of Rhinoferus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rhinoferus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 469.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 464.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 22 of 22 occurrencesOrdovician477–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–471 Mya — about 4 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 4 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 4 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 4 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.3 Mya469.1 Mya477.6 Mya463.8 Mya

22 occurrences of Rhinoferus 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

22 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

5 formations

Volkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EHuk — 59.72°N, 9.85°EHuk — 59.65°N, 9.65°EHuk — 59.72°N, 9.87°EHuk — 59.24°N, 10.89°EHolen — 57.15°N, 16.92°ELanna — 57.29°N, 16.96°ELeetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°E

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

Rhinoferus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rhinoferus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Rhinoferus, 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 22 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 Rhinoferus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rhinoferus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Rhinoferus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Balashova 1976