Biradiolites
via iDigBio · CC BY-NC-ND · via iDigBio. 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
- RadiolitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
312 occurrences of Biradiolites on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
312 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
33 formations
- Vallcarga Formation12
- Habana Formation8
- Trieste Karst Limestone Formation6
- Sant Corneli Formation6
- Collades de Basturs Formation5
- Calizas Formation4
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Biradiolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 225 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Biradiolites and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Biradiolites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
458 taxa- Hippurites38 sites
- Radiolites33 sites
- Vaccinites29 sites
- Hippuritella26 sites
- Praeradiolites26 sites
- Bournonia18 sites
- Durania16 sites
- Lapeirousia15 sites
- Plagioptychus12 sites
- Apricardia11 sites
- Sauvagesia11 sites
- Spondylus11 sites
- Hippuritella lapeirousei10 sites
- Lyriochlamys10 sites
- Pironaea9 sites
- Pseudopolyconites9 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis8 sites
- Sabinia8 sites
- Bournonia excavata7 sites
- Crassatella7 sites
- Cucullaea7 sites
- Joufia reticulata7 sites
- Praebarrettia7 sites
- Praeradiolites subtoucasi7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Biradiolites, 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
65 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages56
- Development of rudist lithosomes in the Coniacian-Lower Campanian carbonate shelves of central-southern Italy: high-energy vs low-energy settings47
- Upper Cretaceous rudists distribution in the Mediterranean Tethys: comparison between platforms from Spain and South Central Italy26
- Rudist horizons in the Montsec (South Central Pyrenees)20
- The Coniacian–Campanian Latium–Abruzzi carbonate platform,an example of a facies mosaic12
- Maastrichtian Rudist Fauna from Tarbur Formation(Zagros Region, SW Iran): Preliminary Observations12
- Rudist Biostratigraphy in the Campanian-Maastrichtian of the south-central Pyrenees, Spain12
- Rudist facies distribution in the late Cretaceous of Cilento and western Basilicata (southern Italy)9
- Coniacian-Maastrichtian of the Tremp Area (South Central Pyrenees)8
- Notas sobre rudistas [Notes about rudists]8
- Facies Succession, Biostratigraphy and Rudist Faunas of Coniacian to Santonian Platform Deposits in the Sant Cornelli Anticline (Southern Central Pyrenees)6
- Rudist fauna and microfossils of the late Senonian (Monte Grisa area, Karst of Trieste, Italy)6
Each of the 312 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. 53 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 Biradiolites
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Biradiolites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRadiolitidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1850