Rhynchonella
Searched as Rhynchonella vivida veldidenensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Rhynchonella as the accepted name.
Rhynchonella is an extinct genus of brachiopods known from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) to the Early Cretaceous. Formerly this genus was understood much more widely and less critical sources still list species of Rhynchonella from the Ordovician to the Eocene. Like most brachiopods, Rhynchonella was a stationary epifaunal suspension feeder.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhynchonellinaePBDB
- 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 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Rhynchonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhynchonella and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Rhynchonella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
2,465 taxa- Terebratula40 sites
- Cidaris25 sites
- Ostrea24 sites
- Astarte22 sites
- Belemnitida22 sites
- Terebratulina chrysalis22 sites
- Lima21 sites
- Plagiostoma20 sites
- Pecten19 sites
- Argyrotheca stevensis18 sites
- Bryozoa18 sites
- Camptonectes18 sites
- Gastropoda18 sites
- Porifera17 sites
- Argyrotheca16 sites
- Crinoidea16 sites
- Isocrania costata16 sites
- Pleurotomaria16 sites
- Rugia16 sites
- Argyrotheca bronnii15 sites
- Bivalvia15 sites
- Entolium orbiculare15 sites
- Liostrea15 sites
- Nerinea15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 468 sites for Rhynchonella, and this reads 240 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
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
Media content2
Picture of Rhynchonella
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Simeon Schmauß
- 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRhynchonellinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer 1809