Rhynchostreon mermeti

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhynchostreonPBDB
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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 37 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 31 of 37 occurrencesLate Cretaceous120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 4 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences113.2 Mya93.9 Mya120.2 Mya89.2 Mya

37 occurrences of Rhynchostreon mermeti 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

37 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

9 formations

Cotinguiba — 10.63°S, 36.95°WCotinguiba — 10.63°S, 36.93°WCotinguiba — 11.29°S, 37.38°WCotinguiba — 10.80°S, 37.16°WYumagual — 6.57°S, 78.73°WYumagual — 6.77°S, 78.62°WYumagual — 6.25°S, 78.83°WRomiron — 5.48°S, 78.52°WGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EFuheis — 32.11°N, 36.27°EZirc Limestone — 47.27°N, 17.87°ENaur — 31.86°N, 35.82°EAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EHalal — 30.37°N, 33.52°E

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The named rock units Rhynchostreon mermeti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhynchostreon mermeti and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

280 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Rhynchostreon mermeti, 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

14 references

Each of the 37 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. 2 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

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No picture of Rhynchostreon mermeti 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 Rhynchostreon mermeti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhynchostreon mermeti 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 itRhynchostreon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Coquand 1862)