Rhombocladia

Rhombocladia

Moore, Raymond C. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChainodictyonidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 118 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 5 of 26 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 13 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 26 occurrencesPermian391–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–382 Mya — about 5 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–337 Mya — about 2 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences333–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–315 Mya — about 2 occurrences315–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–306 Mya — about 2 occurrences306–302 Mya — about 3 occurrences302–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences297–293 Mya — about 1 occurrence293–288 Mya — about 2 occurrences288–284 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences284–279 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–266 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences262–257 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences382.31 Mya264.28 Mya391 Mya257 Mya

26 occurrences of Rhombocladia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

26 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

13 formations

Glencar — 54.43°N, 7.85°WGlencar — 54.45°N, 7.83°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WCallytharra — 26.00°S, 115.50°ECallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.50°ESaal — 22.44°N, 59.77°EPicos de Europa — 43.26°N, 4.62°WNoonkanbah — 17.92°S, 123.93°ETak Fa — 15.93°N, 100.96°ELas Llacerias — 43.20°N, 4.70°WValdeteja — 42.93°N, 5.97°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.12°WSandia — 35.18°N, 106.38°WGray Mesa — 33.45°N, 107.11°WMcCoy — 39.54°N, 106.39°W

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The named rock units Rhombocladia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhombocladia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Rhombocladia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Rhombocladia, 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

16 references

Each of the 26 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. 4 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 Rhombocladia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Moore, Raymond C.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhombocladia 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 itChainodictyonidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.