Rhynchostreon

Rhynchostreon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ExogyrinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 18 of 129 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 111 of 129 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 129 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 1 occurrence136–134 Mya — about 3 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–104 Mya — about 4 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 4 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 21 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 34 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 34 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 13 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 8 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132.6 Mya85.7 Mya138 Mya65 Mya

129 occurrences of Rhynchostreon on record, most of them in the Late 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

129 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

25 formations

Galala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.61°S, 36.95°WCotinguiba — 10.63°S, 36.93°WCotinguiba — 11.29°S, 37.38°WCotinguiba — 10.80°S, 37.16°WHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EHalal — 30.37°N, 33.52°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EDakota — 36.02°N, 111.05°WDakota — 36.55°N, 110.48°WDakota — 35.91°N, 110.89°WDakota — 36.33°N, 109.82°WYumagual — 6.57°S, 78.73°WYumagual — 6.77°S, 78.62°WYumagual — 6.25°S, 78.83°WAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EFahdene — 35.57°N, 8.09°ERomiron — 5.48°S, 78.52°WBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EFuheis — 32.11°N, 36.27°EPicofrentes — 41.13°N, 2.82°WMancos — 36.80°N, 108.93°WGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EB3/C1 — 45.93°N, 0.98°WShuayb — 32.08°N, 36.26°EZirc Limestone — 47.27°N, 17.87°ENaur — 31.86°N, 35.82°EAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.20°N, 14.30°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°EAzilé — 0.40°N, 9.53°ESalinas — 14.19°S, 12.33°EMarnes de Smail — 35.63°N, 6.35°E

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The named rock units Rhynchostreon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhynchostreon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Rhynchostreon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

614 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Rhynchostreon, 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

39 references

Each of the 129 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. 27 further references are 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 content1

Picture of Rhynchostreon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Rhynchostreon 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bayle 1874