Rhombothyris microtrema
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhombothyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Sellithyrididae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Sellithyrididae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Sellithyrididae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Rhombothyris microtrema on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Woburn Sand Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
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The named rock units Rhombothyris microtrema has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rhombothyris microtrema and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Rhombothyris microtrema and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Aniabrochus comptonensis3 sites
- Cyrtothyris cantabridgiensis3 sites
- Cyrtothyris cyrta3 sites
- Cyrtothyris dallasi3 sites
- Cyrtothyris seeleyi3 sites
- Cyrtothyris uniplicata3 sites
- Praelongithyris lankesteri3 sites
- Praelongithyris praelongiforma3 sites
- Rhombothyris extensa3 sites
- Sellithyris upwarensis3 sites
- Platythyris minor2 sites
- Rhombothyris conica2 sites
- Arenaciarcula fittoni1 site
- Barroisia1 site
- cf. Lamellirhynchia caseyi1 site
- Cyclothyris latissima1 site
- Gemmarcula1 site
- Hyposalenia1 site
- Kingena1 site
- Oblongarcula oblonga1 site
- Ornithella1 site
- Peronidella1 site
- Plocoscyphia pertusa1 site
- Raphidonema porcatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rhombothyris microtrema, 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
2 referencesEach of the 3 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
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No picture of Rhombothyris microtrema 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 Rhombothyris microtrema, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhombothyris microtrema 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 itRhombothyris through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walker 1868)