Rostricellula pristina
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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 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Rostricellula pristina 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
23 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
5 formations
- Benbolt Formation10
- Cliffield Formation4
- Day Point Formation · Chazy Group3
- Crown Point Formation · Chazy Group3
- Valcour Formation1
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The named rock units Rostricellula pristina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rostricellula pristina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rostricellula pristina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Maclurites magnus15 sites
- Sphenotreta acutirostris13 sites
- Camerella varians12 sites
- Camarotoechia10 sites
- Eospongia roemeri10 sites
- Glyptorthis bellarugosa10 sites
- Homotelus elongatus10 sites
- Mimella10 sites
- Mimella vulgaris10 sites
- Multicostella platys10 sites
- Oepikina minnesotensis10 sites
- Ptychoglyptus10 sites
- Rhipidomena tennesseensis10 sites
- Eurychilina latimarginata9 sites
- Holopea scrutator8 sites
- Nicholsonella8 sites
- Plectorthis exfoliata7 sites
- Anolotichia6 sites
- Apatomorpha pulchella6 sites
- Bumastus lioderma6 sites
- Calliops annulatus6 sites
- Dinorthis interstriata6 sites
- Dinorthis transversa6 sites
- Dystactospongia6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Rostricellula pristina, 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- Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia14
- The Chazy Formation and its fauna3
- Paleontological Notes: Occurrence of Foerstephyllum in Chazyan Rocks of vermont2
- The Brachiopoda and Ostracoda of the Chazyan2
- The fauna of the Chazy Limestone2
Each of the 23 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 Rostricellula pristina 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 pristina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rostricellula pristina 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)