Rhynchocerithium

Rhynchocerithium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProcerithiidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 215.38 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 4 of 9 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 9 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences214–210 Mya — about 1 occurrence210–206 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences206–202 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–190 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences190–186 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–102 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences211.18 Mya106.3 Mya218 Mya98 Mya

9 occurrences of Rhynchocerithium on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

9 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

3 formations

Chambara — 10.58°S, 76.21°WChambara — 10.87°S, 75.92°WNayband — 32.52°N, 57.37°ENayband — 33.34°N, 51.91°EBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°W

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The named rock units Rhynchocerithium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhynchocerithium and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Rhynchocerithium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Rhynchocerithium, 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

7 references

Each of the 9 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 Rhynchocerithium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Rhynchocerithium 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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What may have been alongside itProcerithiidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1906