Rhytialosia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhytialosiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 368.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Rhytialosia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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.
Rhytialosia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Rhytialosia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Athyris4 sites
- Cyrtospirifer4 sites
- Eobrachythyris4 sites
- Palmatolepis4 sites
- Dmitria3 sites
- Lingulipora3 sites
- Palmatolepis minuta3 sites
- Polygnathus3 sites
- Alternognathus2 sites
- Cavatisinurostrum2 sites
- ? Polygnathella sp.1 site
- Coeloterorhynchus1 site
- Crinisarina1 site
- Cyrtiopsis1 site
- Donalosia1 site
- Eoschuchertella1 site
- Icriodus cornutus1 site
- Loborina1 site
- Nigerinoplica1 site
- Polygnathus nodocostatus1 site
- Ptychomaletoechia1 site
- Schizophoria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rhytialosia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 reference- Brachiopods and conodont biostratigraphy of the Famennian from the Debnik anticline, southern Poland4
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Rhytialosia 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 Rhytialosia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhytialosia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRhytialosiinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.