Rhipidomena

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StrophomeninaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 53 of 54 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 54 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 7 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 7 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 7 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 7 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 7 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 7 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461.1 Mya449.5 Mya472.1 Mya432.1 Mya

54 occurrences of Rhipidomena 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

54 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

14 formations

Benbolt — 35.91°N, 84.09°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.02°N, 81.63°WBenbolt — 37.22°N, 81.36°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.10°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.32°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.56°WBenbolt — 37.11°N, 81.52°WBenbolt — 37.27°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.67°WBenbolt — 36.73°N, 82.70°WCliffield — 37.10°N, 81.34°WCliffield — 37.17°N, 81.48°WCliffield — 37.13°N, 81.48°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 46.88°N, 60.35°WElway — 36.96°N, 81.97°WElway — 36.03°N, 84.13°WLincolnshire — 36.25°N, 83.82°WLincolnshire — 36.52°N, 83.03°WLengshuigou — 23.00°N, 104.00°EChristiania subquadrata beds — 46.00°N, 93.33°EArline — 35.74°N, 84.13°WDryden — 36.40°N, 83.56°WFleanor Mill — 36.12°N, 84.03°WMartin Creek Limestone — 36.58°N, 83.35°WSurgener — 36.70°N, 83.28°WSevier Shale — 35.74°N, 84.11°WDulankara — 44.71°N, 75.33°E

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The named rock units Rhipidomena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhipidomena and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rhipidomena and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

211 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Rhipidomena, 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

10 references

Each of the 54 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 Rhipidomena 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 Rhipidomena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhipidomena 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 itStrophomeninae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956