Rhynchozoon tumulosum

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhynchozoonPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 763 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Rhynchozoon tumulosum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Rhynchozoon tumulosum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rhynchozoon tumulosum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Rhynchozoon tumulosum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
553 taxa- Lagenipora punctulata3 sites
- Acanthinucella spirata2 sites
- Acar bailyi2 sites
- Alia carinata2 sites
- Amphissa versicolor2 sites
- Antropora tincta2 sites
- Atrimitra idae2 sites
- Caesia fossatus2 sites
- Californiconus californicus2 sites
- Callianax biplicata2 sites
- Callistochiton crassicostatus2 sites
- Callistochiton palmulatus2 sites
- Cauloramphus spiniferum2 sites
- Cellaria mandibulata2 sites
- Crassadoma gigantea2 sites
- Crepipatella lingulata2 sites
- Cumingia californica2 sites
- Cymakra gracilior2 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum2 sites
- Diodora aspera2 sites
- Epilucina californica2 sites
- Fissurella volcano2 sites
- Fissurellidea bimaculata2 sites
- Glans carpenteri2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rhynchozoon tumulosum, 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
3 references- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California1
- Fossil bryozoa from the Pleistocene of Southern California1
- Pleistocene invertebrates from Punta China, Baja California, Mexico, with remarks on the composition of the Pacific coast Quaternary faunas1
Each of the 3 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
Media content1

Picture of Rhynchozoon tumulosum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Alison M. Fortunato
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Rhynchozoon tumulosum 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 itRhynchozoon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hincks 1882)