Rostricellula major
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RostricellulaPBDB
- 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 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Rostricellula major on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
- Valcour Formation · Chazy Group3
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The named rock units Rostricellula major 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.
Rostricellula major and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rostricellula major and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Rostricellula plena3 sites
- Bucania sulcatina2 sites
- Eurychilina latimarginata2 sites
- Hesperorthis ignicula2 sites
- Isotelus harrisi2 sites
- Leperditia canadensis2 sites
- Mimella vulgaris2 sites
- Multicostella platys2 sites
- Ambonychiopsis curvata1 site
- Canadocystis emmonsi1 site
- Cleionychia montrealensis1 site
- Conularia triangulata1 site
- Dactylogonia incrassata1 site
- Hibbertia valcourensis1 site
- Isotelus beta1 site
- Lingulella columba1 site
- Modiolopsis fabaformis1 site
- Onychoplecia longirostris1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Phylloporina incepta1 site
- Pliomerops canadensis1 site
- Raphistoma stamineum1 site
- Raphistoma striatum1 site
- Stenopareia globosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rostricellula major, 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- The Chazy Formation and its fauna2
- The Brachiopoda and Ostracoda of the Chazyan1
- The fauna of the Chazy Limestone1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Rostricellula major 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 Rostricellula major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rostricellula major 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 itRostricellula through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Raymond 1905)