Richthofenia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RichthofeniidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lyttoniidina
Time the record covers
At least 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
141 occurrences of Richthofenia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
141 occurrences- Carboniferousunder 1%
- Permian99%
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
26 formations
- Wargal Formation50
- Chhidru Formation16
- Amb Formation13
- Changxing Formation11
- Khachik Formation6
- Gnishik Formation3
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The named rock units Richthofenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Richthofenia and its relatives
PermianWhere Richthofenia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,383 taxa- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis43 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa42 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi42 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis35 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni35 sites
- Costiferina indica34 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis34 sites
- Terebratuloidea davidsoni34 sites
- Chonetella nasuta32 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa32 sites
- Hustedia grandicosta30 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus30 sites
- Notothyris warthi29 sites
- Callispirina ornata28 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) typica28 sites
- Notothyris subvesicularis27 sites
- Athyrella hybrida26 sites
- Athyris26 sites
- Martinia warthi26 sites
- Cleiothyridina capillata25 sites
- Spirigerella ovoidalis25 sites
- Bellerophon24 sites
- Spiriferellina nasuta23 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi acuteplicata23 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 129 sites for Richthofenia, 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
35 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range62
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 522
- The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary8
- Changhsingian brachiopod assemblage sequence in Zhongliang Hill, Chongqing6
- Kotlyar et al., 19894
- Permian Brachiopoda of the Pamir3
- End-Permian mass extinction and palaeoenvironmental changes in Neotethys: Evidence from an oceanic carbonate section in southwestern Tibet2
- Changhsingian brachiopod faunas from Guiding, Guizhou2
- Brachiopoda2
- Late Changxingian brachiopods from Huatang of Chenxian County, southern Hunan2
- New genus and species of Late Permian and earliest Triassic brachiopods from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces2
- Permiskie brakhiopodi yujnogo Primoriya2
Each of the 141 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. 23 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 Richthofenia 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 Richthofenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Richthofenia 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 itRichthofeniidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.