Rhipidomena tenuitesta
No picture of Rhipidomena tenuitesta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 tenuitesta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhipidomenaPBDB
- 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 most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Rhipidomena tenuitesta 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Rhipidomena tenuitesta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhipidomena tenuitesta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rhipidomena tenuitesta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Multicostella6 sites
- Sowerbyella6 sites
- Mimella5 sites
- Sowerbyites5 sites
- Calliops4 sites
- Cyrtoceras4 sites
- Cyrtodonta4 sites
- Eotomaria canalifera4 sites
- Gonioceras4 sites
- Helicotoma declivis4 sites
- Helicotoma tennesseensis4 sites
- Kionoceras4 sites
- Leperditia fabulites pinguis4 sites
- Lophospira milleri4 sites
- Lophospira perangulata4 sites
- Loxobucania emmonsi4 sites
- Ophiletina sublaxa depressa4 sites
- Phragmolites triangularis4 sites
- Plectoceras4 sites
- Polylopia4 sites
- Pseudosphaerexochus4 sites
- Raphistomina4 sites
- Strophomena filitexta4 sites
- Tetradium4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Rhipidomena tenuitesta, 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
3 references- Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia6
- Chazyan and related brachiopods2
- Systematic revision of the Middle and Late Devonian brachiopods Schizophoria (Schizophoria) and ‘Schuchertella’ from North America1
Each of the 9 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 Rhipidomena tenuitesta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 tenuitesta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhipidomena tenuitesta 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 itRhipidomena through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Willard 1928)