Rhipidomella missouriensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhipidomellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
49 occurrences of Rhipidomella missouriensis 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
49 occurrences- Devonian82%
- Carboniferous18%
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
8 formations
- Sappington Formation27
- Louisiana Limestone Formation15
- Lodgepole Limestone Formation2
- Represo Formation1
- New Albany Shale Formation1
- Banff Formation1
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The named rock units Rhipidomella missouriensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhipidomella missouriensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Rhipidomella missouriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
224 taxa- Syringothyris20 sites
- Spirifer15 sites
- Leptalosia scintilla14 sites
- Philhedra rowleyi14 sites
- Chonetes12 sites
- Schuchertella lens12 sites
- Tylothyris11 sites
- Heteralosia beecheri9 sites
- Camarotoechia8 sites
- Crurithyris8 sites
- Orbinaria pyxidata8 sites
- Acanthocrania7 sites
- Camarophorella7 sites
- Neozaphrentis5 sites
- Rhytiophora5 sites
- Selenella5 sites
- Athyris4 sites
- Cleiothyridina4 sites
- Conularia4 sites
- Cornulites4 sites
- Parallelodon sulcatus4 sites
- Ambocoelia3 sites
- Beecheria3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Rhipidomella missouriensis, 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
11 references- Brachiopods from the Sappinton Formation (Devonian - Mississippian) of western Montana21
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Louisiana Limestone of Missouri15
- The Sappington Formation of southwestern Montana3
- Brachiopod Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Lower Mississippian Lodgepole Limestone in Southeastern Idaho2
- Sappington (Kinderhookian) sponges and their environment2
- Famennian faunal zones in western Canada1
- Stratigraphy and Depositional Environment of the New Albany Shale (Upper Devonian and Lower Mississippian) in Indiana1
- Biostratigraphy of transitional Devonian-Mississippian Sappington Formation of Southwest Montana1
- Mississippian fauna in northwestern Sonora, Mexico1
- Mississippian succession in South Nahanni River area, Northwest Territories1
- Mississippian crinoid fauna from the Banff Formation, Sunwapta Pass, Alberta1
Each of the 49 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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Picture of Rhipidomella missouriensis
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No 3D scan of Rhipidomella missouriensis 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 itRhipidomella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swallow 1860)