Rhopalosyringium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CannobotryidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 13 of 60 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 47 of 60 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 60 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–104 Mya — about 4 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 4 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 5 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 8 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 8 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 8 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 6 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya72.2 Mya121 Mya65 Mya

60 occurrences of Rhopalosyringium on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

60 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

9 formations

Scaglia Bianca — 43.48°N, 12.72°EScaglia Bianca — 43.38°N, 12.62°EUrakawa — 42.17°N, 142.82°EScisti a Fucoidi — 43.48°N, 12.72°EAmden — 47.75°N, 11.45°ESolan — 49.38°N, 18.39°EGedeller — 36.80°N, 30.53°EJaworki — 49.40°N, 20.55°EA — 44.98°N, 142.27°ELower Kanguk — 78.18°N, 99.77°W

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The named rock units Rhopalosyringium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhopalosyringium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Rhopalosyringium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

189 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Rhopalosyringium, 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

12 references

Each of the 60 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 Rhopalosyringium 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 Rhopalosyringium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhopalosyringium 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 itCannobotryidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Campbell and Clark 1944