Geniculina ralfi

Geniculina ralfi

Männil, Ralf · CC BY-NC 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
GeniculinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 600 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.5 Mya and 449.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451 Mya449.4 Mya

3 occurrences of Geniculina ralfi 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

3 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

1 formation

Paekna — 59.00°N, 22.77°EPaekna — 59.20°N, 24.38°EPaekna — 59.08°N, 23.61°E

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The named rock units Geniculina ralfi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Geniculina ralfi and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Geniculina ralfi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Geniculina ralfi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Geniculina ralfi

Source
GBIF
Credit
Männil, Ralf
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Geniculina ralfi 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 itGeniculina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roomusoks 2004