Rhizophyllum

Rhizophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniophyllidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 73 occurrencesSilurian — about 40 of 73 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 33 of 73 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 73 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 3 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 5 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 5 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 3 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 12 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 7 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 5 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 6 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 7 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 10 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438.6 Mya387.95 Mya445 Mya357 Mya

73 occurrences of Rhizophyllum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

73 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

43 formations

Garra — 33.00°S, 149.00°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°ESilverdale — 34.83°S, 148.92°EYass — 35.00°S, 149.00°ETabberabbera — 37.58°S, 147.38°ETabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.38°EErdaogou — 43.67°N, 126.47°EErdaogou — 43.00°N, 127.00°EWindmill Limestone — 38.87°N, 117.92°WWindmill Limestone — 39.93°N, 116.47°WLouisville Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°ELaketown Dolomite — 38.50°N, 115.00°WLaketown Dolomite — 40.00°N, 112.00°WKunzhak — 39.25°N, 69.00°ETyutyulen — 52.82°N, 56.98°EGionyama — 32.63°N, 131.18°EVaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WPoint Hibbs — 42.62°S, 145.25°EUkalunda — 20.00°S, 147.00°EBoola Beds — 38.15°S, 146.47°ESpangande Limestone — 57.63°N, 18.30°EIsfara — 39.95°N, 70.50°EAktur — 39.95°N, 70.50°ENingqiang — 32.68°N, 106.05°EGrinchuk Subsuite — 48.47°N, 26.55°EMaradana Shale — 33.20°S, 148.68°ECanberra — 35.28°S, 149.13°E

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The named rock units Rhizophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhizophyllum and its relatives

Silurian

Where Rhizophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

834 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Rhizophyllum, 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

43 references

Each of the 73 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. 31 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Rhizophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Rhizophyllum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindström 1866