Rhipidomella
Searched as Rhipidomella musculosa solaris. The Paleobiology Database treats Rhipidomella as the accepted name.
Rhipidomella is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Orthida and family Rhipidomellidae. Specimens have been found in Carboniferous to Permian beds in southwest Asia, the Moscow Basin, and North America.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhipidomellinaePBDB
- 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 least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
2 occurrences of Rhipidomella 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Rhipidomella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rhipidomella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Rhipidomella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
1,248 taxa- Bryozoa57 sites
- Fenestella54 sites
- Crinoidea45 sites
- Cleiothyridina43 sites
- Spirifer43 sites
- Schuchertella40 sites
- Chonetes39 sites
- Syringopora37 sites
- Syringothyris37 sites
- Camarotoechia36 sites
- Platyceras35 sites
- Ambocoelia34 sites
- Mucrospirifer mucronatus33 sites
- Nucleospira33 sites
- Punctospirifer31 sites
- Rugosa31 sites
- Crurithyris30 sites
- Palaeoneilo29 sites
- Caninia cornucopiae26 sites
- Cypricardinia26 sites
- Aulocystis25 sites
- Longispina25 sites
- Rhombopora25 sites
- Rugosochonetes25 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 953 sites for Rhipidomella, and this reads 240 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
2 references- Brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Rocks at Highland Mills, New York1
- Fauna of the Kanouse Sandstone at Highland Mills, New York1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Rhipidomella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRhipidomellinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.