Rhynchocamara

Eksp. 1956 · CC BY-NC 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
- CamerellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 475.3 Mya to 469.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 481.7 Mya to 464.3 Mya.
5 occurrences of Rhynchocamara 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
5 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
- Ninemile Formation · Pogonip Group2
- Obukhovo Formation1
- Lynna Formation1
- Garden City Formation1
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The named rock units Rhynchocamara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhynchocamara and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rhynchocamara and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Archaeorthis elongata2 sites
- Hesperonomia antelopensis2 sites
- Leptella nevadensis2 sites
- Syntrophopsis2 sites
- Tritoechia sinuata2 sites
- Agnostus1 site
- Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps1 site
- Asaphus expansus1 site
- Catoraphiceras foerstei1 site
- Ceratopea latiumbilicata1 site
- Cystoidea1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Eccyliopterus1 site
- Encrinuridae1 site
- Helicotoma1 site
- Hesperonomia subtransversa1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Isoteloides1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Maclurites1 site
- Orthis callactis1 site
- Panderia triquetra1 site
- Paurorthis parva1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rhynchocamara, 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
4 references- Paleozoic rocks of Antelope Valley, Eureka and Nye Counties, Nevada2
- Ordovician (Arenig-Caradoc) syntrophiidine brachiopods from the east Baltic region1
- Brakhiopody nadsemejstv Orthacea, Dalmanellacea i Syntrophiacea iz nizhnego ordovika Pribaltiki [Lower Ordovician brachiopods of the superfamilies Orthacea, Dalmanellacea and Syntrophiacea of the Eastern Baltic]1
- Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda1
Each of the 5 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
Media content1

Picture of Rhynchocamara
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Eksp. 1956
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Rhynchocamara 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 itCamerellinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert and Cooper 1931