Rothpletzella

Searched as Rothpletzella sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Rothpletzella as the accepted name.

No picture of Rothpletzella 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 Rothpletzella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyanobacteriaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 350 million years on record.

The record covers at least 508.2 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 152.21 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 100 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 13 of 100 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 26 of 100 occurrencesDevonian — about 55 of 100 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 100 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 100 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 100 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 100 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 100 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 100 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 100 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 100 occurrences523–511 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences511–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–448 Mya — about 6 occurrences448–435 Mya — about 6 occurrences435–422 Mya — about 26 occurrences422–410 Mya — about 13 occurrences410–397 Mya — about 4 occurrences397–385 Mya — about 17 occurrences385–372 Mya — about 16 occurrences372–359 Mya — about 4 occurrences359–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–145 Mya — about 3 occurrences508.2 Mya157.9 Mya523 Mya145 Mya

100 occurrences of Rothpletzella 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

100 occurrences

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

48 formations

Ihmert — 51.26°N, 7.65°EYunghsien — 25.33°N, 110.12°EHeceta — 55.78°N, 133.17°WHeceta — 55.78°N, 133.48°WHeceta — 55.73°N, 133.47°WNubrigyn — 32.84°S, 148.99°EBeiguoshan — 35.02°N, 106.66°ELazhuglung — 34.77°N, 81.31°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°EMuch Wenlock — 53.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WElmside — 34.83°S, 148.92°EHogklint — 57.72°N, 18.40°EHamra — 56.92°N, 18.12°EPillara — 17.40°S, 124.95°EKarakavak — 39.62°N, 72.80°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHamra Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EDolyhir and Nash Scar Limestone — 52.00°N, 3.00°WMuksha Subsuite — 48.62°N, 26.73°EUnterhonsel — 51.36°N, 7.70°ECannindah — 24.88°S, 151.10°ENeuville — 50.17°N, 4.50°EMoulin Liénaux — 50.19°N, 5.24°E

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The named rock units Rothpletzella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rothpletzella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rothpletzella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

656 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Rothpletzella, 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

50 references

Each of the 100 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. 38 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

Media content0

No picture of Rothpletzella 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 Rothpletzella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rothpletzella 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 itCyanobacteria through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1948