Rhynchopora nikitini

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhynchoporaPBDB
- 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 least 39 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
32 occurrences of Rhynchopora nikitini on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
32 occurrences- Carboniferous3%
- Permian97%
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
13 formations
- Wargal Formation12
- Great Bear Cape Formation2
- Assistance Formation1
- Gerkinskaya Formation1
- Kigiltas Formation1
- Saginaw Bay Formation1
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The named rock units Rhynchopora nikitini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rhynchopora nikitini and its relatives
PermianWhere Rhynchopora nikitini and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
516 taxa- Stenoscisma purdoni15 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa13 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis12 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis11 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis11 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus11 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi11 sites
- Athyrella hybrida10 sites
- Callispirina ornata10 sites
- Notothyris subvesicularis10 sites
- Notothyris warthi10 sites
- Spirigerella media10 sites
- Athyris9 sites
- Costiferina indica9 sites
- Dielasma9 sites
- Martinia warthi9 sites
- Productus (Haydenella) kiangsiensis tumida9 sites
- Richthofenia lawrenciana9 sites
- Spiriferellina nasuta9 sites
- Spirigerella ovoidalis9 sites
- Spirigerella proxima9 sites
- Terebratuloidea davidsoni9 sites
- Araxathyris timorensis8 sites
- Cancrinella koninckiana8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Rhynchopora nikitini, 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- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range13
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska6
- Palaeontological evidence for the Age of the Carboniferous and Permian rocks of central Vestspitsbergen2
- Obercarbonfauna von Konig Oscars und Heibergs Land2
- First find of Early Permian goniatite in Southern Primorie1
- Permian ammonoids of Novaya Zemlya1
- A contribution to revision of the genus Rhynchopora1
- Permian Brachiopods from Axel Heiberg Island, Canada, and an Index of Sampling Efficiency1
- The main features of the Geological structure of Barentsøya1
- Biostratigrafiya i Brakhiopody Verknego Paleozoya Taimyra]1
- Permian rocks and faunas of Grinnell Peninsula, Arctic Archipelago1
- Kashirtsev, 19591
Each of the 32 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
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No 3D scan of Rhynchopora nikitini 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 itRhynchopora through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tschernyschew 1889