Rhynchonella chanum
No picture of Rhynchonella chanum 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 Rhynchonella chanum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhynchonellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Rhynchonella chanum on record, most of them in the Middle 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
1 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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.
Rhynchonella chanum and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Rhynchonella chanum and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Avicula1 site
- Aviculopecten herbichii1 site
- Aviculopecten schlosseri1 site
- Costirhynchopsis mentzeli1 site
- Cyrtina katzeri1 site
- Dinarispira pia1 site
- Holcorhynchella atomaria1 site
- Holcorhynchella deliciosa1 site
- Koeveskallina koeveskalyensis1 site
- Leptochondria pervulgata1 site
- Mentzelia mentzeli1 site
- Myoconcha1 site
- Mysidioptera dinarica1 site
- Ornithopecten bosniae1 site
- Ornithopecten katzeri1 site
- Pecten (Amphijanira) aeriphilus1 site
- Pecten mentzeliae1 site
- Posidonia1 site
- Rhynchonella delecta1 site
- Tetractinella cornutula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rhynchonella chanum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Rhynchonella chanum 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 Rhynchonella chanum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhynchonella chanum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRhynchonella through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bittner 1902