Rowellella
Rowell, Albert J.; Krause, F. F. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LingulellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Obolidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Obolidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Obolidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 39 million years on record.
The record covers at least 482.9 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 432.9 Mya.
42 occurrences of Rowellella 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
42 occurrences- Ordovician95%
- Silurian5%
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
- Jonstorp Formation6
- Seby Limestone Formation3
- Qumes Formation2
- Gullhögen Formation2
- Furudal Formation2
- Folkeslunda Limestone Formation2
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The named rock units Rowellella 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. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rowellella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rowellella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
306 taxa- Paterula18 sites
- Orbiculoideinae13 sites
- Scaphelasma mica13 sites
- Conotreta mica11 sites
- Lingulellinae10 sites
- Myotreta dalecarlica10 sites
- Eoconulus semiregularis9 sites
- Eoconulus clivosus8 sites
- Acanthambonia portranensis7 sites
- Biernatia7 sites
- Biernatia holmi7 sites
- Eoconulus robustus7 sites
- Pseudolingula7 sites
- Rhinotreta laeta7 sites
- Schizotreta concava7 sites
- Tegulella minuta7 sites
- Conotreta siljanensis6 sites
- Eoconulus6 sites
- Hisingerella unguicula6 sites
- Scaphelasma scutula6 sites
- Acanthambonia5 sites
- Glossellinae5 sites
- Phosphannulus5 sites
- Spondylotreta5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Rowellella, 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
15 references- Middle Ordovician phosphatic inarticulate brachiopods from Västergötland and Dalarna, Sweden13
- Late Ordovician lingulate brachiopods from Estonia7
- Locality 4 : 2 Ontika Clint5
- Early to Middle Ordovician lingulate brachiopods from the Lashkarak Formation, Eastern Alborz Mountains, Iran4
- Silurian Linguliformean Brachiopods and Conodonts from the Cobra Formation, Southeastern New South Wales, Australia2
- Lingulate brachiopods from the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary beds in Sweden2
- Diverse endobiotic symbiont fauna from the Late Katian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia1
- Mid Ordovician (Darriwilian) brachiopods of South Kazakhstan1
- Lingulate brachiopods from Lower Ordovician (Tremadoc) chalcedonites, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland1
- Early Ordovician organophosphatic brachiopods with Baltoscandian affinities from the Alay Range, southern Kyrgyzstan1
- Late Ordovician linguliformean microbrachiopods from north-central Kazakhstan1
- New and rare lingulate brachiopods from the lower part of the Klabava Formation (Arenig, Lower Ordovician) of Prague Basin, Bohemia1
Each of the 42 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. 3 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 content1
Picture of Rowellella
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Rowell, Albert J.; Krause, F. F.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Rowellella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLingulellinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wright 1963