Rhynchonella nuciformis
No picture of Rhynchonella nuciformis 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 Rhynchonella nuciformis, 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 6.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Rhynchonella nuciformis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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- Early Cretaceous100%
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 nuciformis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Rhynchonella nuciformis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Acanthohoplites1 site
- Ancyloceras matheronianum1 site
- Cheloniceras buxtorfi1 site
- Douvilleiceras1 site
- Dufrenoyia1 site
- Dufrenoyia justinae1 site
- Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi1 site
- Hamites tropicalis1 site
- Neocomites1 site
- Parahoplites1 site
- Parahoplites melchioris1 site
- Pecten1 site
- Pseudohaploceras matheroni1 site
- Puzosia1 site
- Toxaster1 site
- Uhligella1 site
- Zuercherella zuercheri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rhynchonella nuciformis, 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 nuciformis 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 Rhynchonella nuciformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhynchonella nuciformis 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 itRhynchonella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1825)