Rhyncholampas

Rhyncholampas

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
CassidulidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Cassiduloida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cassiduloida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Cassiduloida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 129 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 61 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 61 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 25 of 61 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 61 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 61 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 61 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 61 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 10 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 10 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 8 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 9 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences66 Mya774 ka74 Mya0 Mya

61 occurrences of Rhyncholampas on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

61 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

19 formations

Suwannee Limestone — 29.33°N, 83.14°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.20°N, 82.18°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.56°N, 82.39°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.11°N, 82.70°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.33°N, 82.76°WSuwannee Limestone — 29.92°N, 82.71°WSuwannee Limestone — 29.87°N, 82.75°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.38°N, 83.17°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.36°N, 83.13°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.30°N, 83.10°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.28°N, 83.71°WSuwannee Limestone — 29.81°N, 82.94°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.12°N, 83.60°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.38°N, 83.80°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.37°N, 83.94°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.17°N, 83.96°WCastle Hayne — 34.97°N, 78.05°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.73°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.89°WCastle Hayne — 34.85°N, 77.70°WCastle Hayne — 34.29°N, 77.92°WCastle Hayne — 35.36°N, 77.32°WCastle Hayne — 35.32°N, 77.33°WCrystal River Limestone — 31.25°N, 86.77°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.77°N, 85.23°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.93°N, 82.70°WOcala Limestone — 29.01°N, 82.68°WMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EChipola — 30.50°N, 85.12°WAvon Park — 29.01°N, 82.65°WMoodys Branch — 30.71°N, 84.86°WSantee Limestone — 33.28°N, 80.41°WMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°EArcadia — 27.22°N, 81.86°WPeace River — 26.92°N, 82.14°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WBridgeboro Limestone — 31.40°N, 83.98°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WOcala — 30.95°N, 85.23°W

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The named rock units Rhyncholampas 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.

Rhyncholampas and its relatives

Eocene

Where Rhyncholampas and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

621 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Rhyncholampas, 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

13 references

Each of the 61 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. 1 further reference is 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 content2

Picture of Rhyncholampas

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1869)