Rhynchotreta americana
No picture of Rhynchotreta americana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Rhynchotreta americana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhynchotretaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 439.4 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Rhynchotreta americana on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
22 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Rochester Shale Formation · Clinton Group8
- Waldron Shale Formation5
- Wayne Formation2
- Osgood Shale Formation2
- Glenmark Shale Formation · Clinton Group1
- Gasport Limestone Formation · Lockport Group1
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The named rock units Rhynchotreta americana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhynchotreta americana and its relatives
SilurianWhere Rhynchotreta americana and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
346 taxa- Leptaena rhomboidalis20 sites
- Stegerhynchus19 sites
- Atrypa reticularis18 sites
- Fardenia (Coolinia)17 sites
- Howellella (Howellella) crispa17 sites
- Dalmanites16 sites
- Eucalyptocrinites16 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus15 sites
- Whitfieldella nitida15 sites
- Favosites14 sites
- Platyostoma niagarensis14 sites
- Bryozoa13 sites
- Dalejina hybrida13 sites
- Resserella elegantula13 sites
- Anastrophia12 sites
- Lecanocrinus12 sites
- Lyriocrinus11 sites
- Macrostylocrinus11 sites
- Nucleospira11 sites
- Cornellites10 sites
- Cornulites10 sites
- Dawsonoceras10 sites
- Dimerocrinites10 sites
- Calymene niagarensis9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Rhynchotreta americana, 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
5 references- Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology10
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America8
- Species-abundance models: an ecological approach to inferring paleoenvironment and resolving paleoecological change in the Waldron Shale (Silurian)2
- Silurian (Wenlockian) brachiopods from southeastern California1
- Osgood (Niagaran) bryozoans from the type area1
Each of the 22 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. 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 Rhynchotreta americana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Rhynchotreta americana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhynchotreta americana 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 itRhynchotreta through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1879)