Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum

Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum

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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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 73 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 67 of 73 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 73 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 11 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 11 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 11 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 11 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 7 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100.5 Mya85.7 Mya107.1 Mya65.2 Mya

73 occurrences of Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum 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

73 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

15 formations

Galala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EFahdene — 35.57°N, 8.09°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WPicofrentes — 41.13°N, 2.82°WB3/C1 — 45.93°N, 0.98°WShuayb — 32.08°N, 36.26°EFuheis — 32.11°N, 36.27°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 suborbiculatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

295 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum, 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

21 references

Each of the 73 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. 9 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 suborbiculatum

Credit
Juandev
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1801)